President Kay Bernstein of Hertha BSC sees the overthrow of the “corrupt system” of football as inevitable.
“The revolution has already begun,” said the former Ultra of the Bundesliga relegated in an interview with “n-tv.de”. “We need new rules for sustainable and competitive football. They will then apply to everyone. No more back rooms.”
The case of Hertha investor Lars Windhorst opened his eyes, said Bernstein: “It became clear to me that I had ended up in a cycle that involved a lot of money, some of which didn’t play fair either. It’s a corrupt system.” The 54-year-old also expressly referred this to the associations.
For example, Bernstein calls for minimizing dependency on TV money. The new humility announced at the beginning of the corona pandemic does not exist “because the system has not yet imploded, because it is about life-sustaining measures, about somehow continuing. Nobody puts football on emergency operation and see what we need.”
Hertha BSC a “warning example”
Bernstein again brought up the topic of salary caps, redistribution, a return to the core kick-off time on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and measures against spiraling consultant fees: more responsibility, less focus on profitability.
Hertha BSC, even with its hundreds of millions of investors wasted, is a “warning example,” says Bernstein: “We know what we’re talking about here and that it’s not always the best decision for the future to simply pump new money into the system.”
In March 2023, the investment company 777 Partners joined the badly hit Hertha BSC. The company holds 78.8 percent of the shares in Hertha BSC GmbH und Co. KGaA.