Berlin (AP) – Hertha interim boss Thorsten Manske has asked investor Lars Windhorst to work better together after the violent dissonance of the past few months.
“I beg you, let’s talk to each other and not about each other. Let’s treat each other with trust and respect,” Manske said in his speech at the general meeting of the Berlin Bundesliga club on Sunday. “Let’s close the rows,” called the leading member of the Executive Committee to Windhorst, who was sitting in the first row of exhibition hall 20.
There were strong expressions of displeasure against Windhorst and against Manske’s praised ex-president Werner Gegenbauer, who was not present after his resignation. Million donor Windhorst wanted to speak to the members at a later date. He had recently argued publicly about club politics, especially with Gegenbauer, and spoke out in favor of the club boss being voted out of office because he saw his investment of 375 million euros as burned.
A successor to Gegenbauer is to be elected on June 26 at an extraordinary general meeting, announced Manske, who temporarily holds the management post after Gegenbauer’s resignation.