I’ll recap a little:
The AG was founded 20 years ago and with the three partners (AAA) found at first glance three generous financiers (for a total of 25 percent shares) who seemed almost perfect.
Everything seemed to be going the way “investors in football” can work at best.
Those who felt that they had always done their best for the club continued to hold the reins.
Then came the first caesura.
The patriarch was out of action, the crown prince (himself a “technocrat” before the Lord) had little to do with the values that the supporter actually connects/associated with the club and has already taken the first steps towards maximum success.
Only this maximum success was now defined differently.
While it used to be the maximum possible sporting success, it was now about maximum economic success, for which maximum sporting success was necessary.
“Stupidly” the former patriarch came back and tried to re-establish “his thing”.
In the meantime, however, two worlds collided here because those with the dollar signs in their eyes could now offer more resistance because they now had more influence.
The patriarch, who had previously appeared irrational at times, but where one could very often recognize the intention afterwards, led a fight against windmills and the actual meaning of his irrational actions no longer came out.
As a last attempt to give the club a little bit of “Bayern DNA” even after his retirement, he installs two protégés…
Unfortunately, these protégés are inexperienced and/or not up to the task.
They are now also almost defenseless against the new powers that are just waiting for this last bastion of the “Bavarian gene”, the “Mia san mia”… whatever you want to call it… to show their unprotected side .
And they show that weak side… The rest is history.
We are currently experiencing a kind of “hostile takeover” by FCB.
Hoeneß no longer has the influence that everyone wants to say he has.
In the meantime, the management levels of Adidas, Audi and Allianz “have their pants on”.
And they are used to treating their staff in exactly the same way as various employees had to experience this season.
They don’t give a fuck if it’s dirty and expensive. Usually it’s not their reputation and it’s not their money that is wasted.
They are used to playing dirty and still coming out victorious in “wars” even when they actually lost.
In such cases, they are used to already having the next high-paying managerial position and/or an indecent and undeserved million-dollar fee in their pockets.
Lying, or let’s benevolently call it “interpreting facts for one’s own benefit”, is in their blood.
If you get kicked out of the previous post, you move on to the next nest you make and keep making things worse until the game starts all over again.
FCB was able to hold out for 20 years, but are just reaping the bad apples that they planted themselves back then.
I have a horrible feeling about that.
It is almost certain that FCB will continue to be somehow successful under such leadership, but the sympathy values will continue to decline. – This is actually only possible with one’s own followers, but sooner or later this will lead to a “GAU” if countermeasures are not taken as soon as possible.
Here I hope for the members, who will hopefully disempower the current leadership of the eV as quickly as possible in order to install something clearly red there again.
I have no idea if and how that can be done, but if that doesn’t happen, I see black.
And somewhere I’m afraid that the successful fans are now so outnumbered that the “values” basically don’t matter anymore, because the main thing is CL, Triple, Schei*diewandan.
Too much pessimism?… We’ll see.
My thoughts go in this direction when Kahn is replaced by Dreesen.
With Hainer and Dreesen, the two highest positions in the club have now been filled with business people and shareholders instead of former athletes for the first time. These actually only represent 25% of the shares, so the association with 75% places a great deal of responsibility for day-to-day business in the hands of entrepreneurs.
This is not unusual for a large club, but it changes the DNA of Bayern, which has been extremely successful for a long time (largely without external financiers).
What at first glance looks like a more professional setup could be extremely dangerous. The view and the decisions can change as a result. The supremacy in the Bundesliga is also not a matter of course, in case of doubt, FC Bayern has always maintained this through decisions that were guided more by sporting ambition than by rational reason.
There are enough examples of how difficult it is to keep a club at the top just because it is financially well positioned.
Kahn was always a sportsman through and through. Sick with ambition, he never shied away from confrontation, didn’t hold back, and didn’t try to sugarcoat anything.
As a Bayer player I hated him for it! After that I missed it!
I think he just doesn’t fit into such a management level with power games, intrigues and every effort to gain the greatest possible advantage outside of the sporting competition.
I can still remember statements from his early days as a board member where he made positive comments about a Final Four tournament to make the championship more exciting (which would have been a disadvantage for Bayern at the same time).
With an attitude like that, he’s not cut out for this job and that’s a credit to him!
Kahn and Brazzo may not have been the best people to fill their positions, but Bayern should be careful not to lose sight of the sport and the club when making new appointments.