“Can’t be that they can do everything”
Professions rage – and demands punishment for impartial
28.09.2025 – 8:41 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
At the bankruptcy in Mannheim, Essen sees Klaus Gjasula Rot. To be wrong, the professional, who then expresses violent criticism and asks the DFB to take measures.
Third league professional Klaus Gjasula has suffered violent criticism of the referees and in the future demanded that they are punished in the event of extreme wrong decisions. “Referees have to get punishments as well as clubs and players,” said the experienced von Rot-Weiss Essen after the 1: 6 at Waldhof Mannheim at “Magentasport”. “It cannot be that they can do everything they want. At some point it is also good,” continued the midfielder.
This was preceded by a red card that was unauthorized from Gjasula, which referees Florian Lechner showed the 35-year-old in the game on Saturday for rough fouls. In the 68th minute, Gjasula got into a duel with Mannheim’s Kennedy Okpala. “At the end of the day, I didn’t even step on his foot, but only crashed into his ankle against his clamp,” Gjasula explained the scene.
Referee Lechner rated the entry differently, put the Essener off the pitch. Gjasula questioned the decision: “How long has this been a red card in German football?”
The former Bundesliga professional of SC Paderborn and Darmstadt 98 accused the impartial that he had not even noticed the situation. “It cannot be that every week referees just act as they want to see if they didn’t see it,” said Gjasula before he added: “Because if he saw it, he wouldn’t whistle it. That means he doesn’t see it.”
His resentment went even further: he claimed that the impartial would distribute red cards “simply according to the feeling”. “That is not possible, so something has to be changed in the future. If a worker builds shit, he gets a punishment from his employer. It must be the same with referees,” said Gjasula.