Expert is expanding BVB management
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Borussia Dortmund is expanding his management in order to be even better positioned during contract talks and when threading transfers. As the “Ruhr Nachrichten” and “Bild” report, sports managing director Lars Ricken hired a new expert: Simon Rödder, who will act as “Speaker Sport & Stabstelle negotiation”. The new employee will report on Ricken in the future and should support the sporting leadership of the Westphalia with his knowledge. Rödder is managed as a negotiation consultant & coach at the “LinkedIn” business network.
“Since there is an enormous amounts in professional football, it is a requirement for me that we will continue to develop in the area of negotiation. Therefore I created the negotiation office. For their leadership, we were able to gain a designated expert in Simon Rödder, who also supported me as a speaker on other topics,” explained Ricken.
The ex-professional continued about negotiation coach Rödder: “Before that, he worked in a management consultancy specializing in negotiations and was responsible for the sports sector there. With this profile, he will support us to make processes in sport even more professional and efficient.” Rödder, who studied “international management”, said: “Today I am proud to work at Borussia Dortmund and to support the managing director of Sport directly in shaping the future of the association.” In cooperation with the DFB and the DFL, he is said to have developed a special negotiating workshop for football managers.
TM community sees the attitude of a negotiator positively
“Basically, it is a good approach to bring input to the club from the outside and ultimately, there are no experts with (operational) economic background in the positions of the sporting persons who have had experience in negotiations for years,” says TM-Uner “Beinschrot12” in the BVB forum. “Watzke (club chief; the editor) could insofar as such experiences and a look at the football business and also sponsorship acquisition could be assumed because of his entrepreneurial activity, in Ricken and Kehl (sports director; i.e. red.) In this respect, there is actually only a look out of football on the field of negotiation.”
User “Patty” noted: “I would have liked new expertise in the field of scouting again. (…) I would also find an additional expert for the South America and Central America market. In the meantime, Dortmund fan “Since1986” welcomes Rödder’s commitment: “For a long time I asked why you don’t get any professional negotiators in the amounts today, but that it simply has a former professional ball.” In this transfer summer, the black and yellow invested 99.7 million euros in newcomers and fixed commitments, in return 72.75 million euros were taken for player sales.
