The Bundesliga is suffering from corona-related failures. Do clubs like FC Bayern have to make contracts pandemic-proof in future to prevent players from negligent behavior?
The Bundesliga suffers from Corona. The ghost games and the associated financial losses are a massive burden on the clubs – after the winter break, the clubs are now struggling more than ever with failures due to corona infections.
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The hardest hit was FC Bayern. He had to replace nine stars and play the second half of the season against Gladbach with various youth players on the bench. He messed it up (1: 2) and then quarreled with the fact that the game was played at all.
T-online columnist Stefan Effenberg (Read the whole column here) do not recognize it. He wrote: “FC Bayern is to blame for the precarious situation.” According to Effenberg, the players have exposed themselves to an unnecessary risk of infection with various long-distance trips. Also national goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who was infected in the Maldives and had to be replaced by Sven Ulreich – who in turn did not cut a good figure.
Effenberg wrote: “Nowadays, according to contracts, players are sometimes banned from dangerous leisure activities such as skiing so that they do not get injured. In a pandemic, travel, especially long-distance travel, is one of these dangerous leisure activities for me. Therefore, it must be possible for players to participate in them in the future Depending on how long the pandemic will be with us, travel bans should also be enforceable. “
That leads to the question:
Do you need a contract revolution in the Bundesliga to meet the pandemic conditions?
Florian Wichert
Deputy Editor in Chief
Per
Yes, the players force the clubs to act
Travel bans? Inadmissible under labor law. Compulsory vaccination? Difficult to enforce. The sharpest weapon in the fight against the Hallodris among the players is so far the roll call. The stars of FC Bayern have shown what it brings: nothing. They traveled far away, became infected with Corona and left their teammates in the lurch against Gladbach.
The chaos at Bayern must have consequences – for the whole league. If various players cannot be dealt with with appeals, then the contracts must be adapted to the pandemic conditions. Where skiing is prohibited due to the risk of injury, long-distance travel must also be prohibited due to the risk of infection – just like visiting the club. At least in the pandemic.
Compulsory vaccination, rules of conduct – probably only a treaty revolution with passages in which equally sensitive penalties are set out in the event of disregard will help.
Such clauses would have saved FC Bayern immense damage in recent months. Unfortunately, nothing can be changed in existing contracts. Those that will be closed in the future must make the clubs pandemic-proof. Ideally, that of Neuer, if he extends beyond 2023. He was one of the long-distance travelers, got infected in the Maldives – and should feel the consequences just like everyone else.
Robert Hiersemann
Head of Football and Sports
Cons
No, because FC Bayern has a problem, not the league
The ignorance of some players must not be the basis for new clauses to be set in professional contracts. If some of the record champions’ highly acclaimed superstars are currently setting a bad example, then FC Bayern has a problem and not the league.
For comparison: Cologne and Bielefeld currently have no infected footballers, at Mainz, Augsburg and Fürth only one player each has Corona. At Dortmund, Union Berlin and Frankfurt there are two professionals per club. Here the players can cope with the responsibility, the bosses’ appeals have obviously paid off. In addition, a vacation trip cannot be compared with skiing.
Sure: football professionals have to live up to their role model function, especially during the corona pandemic – including and above all the top stars from Munich. It would be easiest if the players who behave irresponsibly could finally cut a slice of the role models in the league. Because there are definitely many professionals who are cautious in the current explosive situation and forego long-distance travel. Because they are aware of the scope of their actions.
So let’s not just grumble about Bayern, but also praise the exemplary behavior of many other players.
Who is right?
In the “duel of the week”, Florian Wichert (Deputy Editor-in-Chief at t-online) and Robert Hiersemann (Head of Football and Sport) comment on current football topics every week. See the format above in the video or from 9 p.m. on free TV as part of “Bundesliga analysis” on Sport 1.
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