Majority shareholder Martin Kind cannot understand the reasons for his dismissal as managing director of Hannover 96 Management GmbH. Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) is also skeptical about the events at the second division soccer team.
“I’m going my own way, it’s justified and responsible. The whole thing is completely superfluous,” Kind told the “Neue Presse” on Friday. He does not know the reason for his dismissal. “We weren’t told that.” The businessman, who has held various managerial positions for Lower Saxony for almost 25 years, does not consider the dismissal to be lawful and is having it legally examined. He speculated it could be about things “that we should have informed them”.
Transfer fee for Coach Leitl the stumbling block?
According to information from the newspaper, the eV had issued an instruction some time ago that it had to be consulted when spending 100,000 euros. In the case of coach Stefan Leitl, who came to the current season for an estimated 500,000 euros, Kind is said not to have asked the parent club.
Leitl did not want to comment on the power struggle in the club on Friday. He wants to focus on the DFB Cup game on Sunday at Oberliga club TSV Schott Mainz (3:31 p.m., in the live center on NDR.de). “We are in good contact with Marcus Mann,” said Leitl about the sports director. “He also spoke to the team and I think the questions were answered there.”
Because: What prospects does 96 have now?
Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) is critical of the developments at the Hanover club. “As a self-confessed supporter of the Reds, I was finally looking forward to a good season again. I seriously wonder what prospects 96 should actually have now,” Weil told the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND). The board of directors of the parent club had surprisingly dismissed the long-standing club boss Kind on Wednesday evening. However, the 78-year-old is still the majority shareholder of the outsourced professional division.
Co-partner Dirk Roßmann also criticized the approach of the management of the parent association. “The position that pays – in my case a double-digit million amount – and the others determine where to go has never worked,” he told the RND newspapers.
The 75-year-old drugstore entrepreneur, Kind and the real estate entrepreneur Gregor Baum are the shareholders of Hannover 96 Sales&Service GmbH&Co. KG. This is 100 percent owned by the professional football association KGaA.
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Sports current | 07/29/2022 | 5:17 p.m
