After a financier failed to invest in the German Football League, the originally planned investment volume for the coming years could be halved. At least that is what CEO Alexander Wehrle from Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart assumes.
“We expect that the management and the Presidium of the DFL will present us with a new model of how we can raise the funds for the undisputedly necessary investments,” Wehrle told the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten/Zeitung”: “It might not be about that The clubs cannot manage the total volume originally targeted at 700 million euros on their own. But it may be half of that amount.”
Most recently, the “internal financing” model, according to which clubs should finance investments from their own resources, was favored by some club bosses.
In plain language, this would mean that the DFL withholds a share of the proceeds from media rights. With the decline in their most important source of income, clubs will inevitably have to reduce spending on players, agents and managers.