Stopping the game is also not a solution
Should it even be better to stop the game entirely? “No,” says Baldi, that would hardly help: “Our partners and service providers with whom we have contracts helped us in the last lockdown by foregoing recourse payments. We don’t know whether they would do that again if we had to stop gaming again.”
The situation in ice hockey seems even more dramatic. Mannheim’s boss Binder openly admits: “We only survived last season together with major wage cuts by the players, thanks to our loyal partners, fans and sponsors, who have fully participated in many things, and through government aid. This season is again a completely different economy than the previous one. “
“Complete removal of our business foundation”
Because the maximum number of spectators in Baden-WĂĽrttemberg has been 750 for two weeks now, Mannheim has been playing without fans since then. “We have had ghost games in Mannheim for two weeks now, since opening up to this number of people would be more economically damaging than conducting pure ghost games. In fact, 750 people have been completely deprived of our business fundamentals for a long time., said Binder.
Given his concerns about liquidity, the ice hockey manager calls for immediate outside help: “The emergency aid for professional sports has not yet been increased. The 1.8 million euros called up last year for the ticket failure have been exhausted, which has only made up a fraction of the actual ticketing failure. New support has not yet been decided, which has extremely exacerbated the situation . This emergency aid must be continued and increased as quickly as possible. “
Status: 12/22/2021, 2:04 p.m.
