Rummenigges Warning: From Football First, Finance First

The stadiums of the Bundesliga and 2nd league will be full again, Borussia Dortmund reports 81,365 spectators for the duel with Leipzig next Saturday evening, the second division game between Dresden and Schalke will experience 30,000 spectators in the stadium of the Saxony. After just over two years of pandemic, the German professional clubs are allowed to hope for normal nature, which means a key foundation of their existence for many.

• The football and the problem of consequence dragging
• Rummenigges warning fits the current FC Bayern
• Financial Fair-Play: Rummenigge takes UEFA in the duty
• 50 + 1 "A relic age days": The competition is decided on the transfer market
• Football First "was" Finance First "

The football and the problem of consequence dragging

Now you could be curious if the professional football has pulled some teachings from this two-year suffering period. If one hears Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, then his answer with a clear NO falls out. "The big problem of football is that he is unwilling from these things (Whie the corona pandemic, d. Red.) consequences," said the 66-year-old in the podcast "Tomorrow".

The former CEO of Bayern is likely to focus on those European clubs with this statement, whose financial sources are lush bubbling than those of DFL clubs, ie the competition of the Munich in the Champions League from Paris, England or Spain. "The salaries continue to rise, the transfer sums are still rising and every industry that starts their budgets during a crisis will need to pay an invoice at some point."

The salaries continue to rise, the transfer sums are still increasing and every industry, which starts their budgets during a crisis, will have to pay an invoice at some point.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

Rummenigges warning fits the current FC Bayern

It is a warning that fits wonderfully in the landscape of the current or recent contract situations at the German record champion. David Alaba released the FC Bayern's heavy heart to real because the Munich did not want to fulfill its salary expectations. Niklas Süle received a contract offer, which did not trigger the corresponding appreciation in the central defender, so that he will continue to BVB. And even with the contract negotiations with the "big three" (Lewandowski, Müller, new), it will be exciting to observe how the Bayern bosses move their financial pain boundaries.

Financial Fair-Play: Rummenigge takes UEFA in the duty

Rummenigge, once world-class striker and even one of the first million transfers of the Bundesliga history (1984 from Bavaria to Inter), sees in terms of debt of football clubs above all the UEFA in the obligation. "It could, I believe, now be the big litter in which one gives the club tools to the hand, which relates to more serious finance, which is concerned, for example, leverage levels. Do not spend more than you take it. This is the sense of Financial Fairplay", according to the European Champion of 1980 with a view of the debt mountains, for example, the FC Barcelona or Real Madrid.

The Premier League is currently driving football, especially in Europe.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

But not in Spain, he sees the main problem, this is more likely to be in England. "The Premier League is currently driving football, especially in Europe. They are at top level, but that can not be right the UEFA that a league is doing such a dominance now," says Rummenigge and supplements: "The only club that can still keep up is a French club called Paris."

From this financial imbalance in European club football, the path leads directly to the discussion about the 50 + 1 rule in Germany. For Rummenigge this is "a giant giant handicap". The big question that you have to ask yourself in the Bundesliga: "How long can we do more tradition than competitiveness?"

50 + 1 "A relic age days": The competition is decided on the transfer market

According to Rummenigge, "the tradition is a high good in our country, which is also highly appreciated by certain fans. But if we do not bring 50 + 1 to a fit sometime, so that investors are still allowed to invest in the Bundesliga, then the question arises how long the Bundesliga can maintain competitiveness. " In the perception Rummenigges be it "no coincidence that the transfer market is purely net only from a country, namely England, is operated. Even Real and Barcelona and all others can maintain competitiveness under these conditions."

For Rummenigge, the 50 + 1 rule in Germany is a "relic of age days", which the DFB has given in 2000 when founding the DFL of the league. For Rummenigge, changes to this rule are urgent needed. "This is now 22 years ago, but sometime you have to think about whether it would not be better, more modern and more competitive to adapt this rule for the competitiveness of the German league but also for international comparison. Because international competition is only on the transfer market decided and there we can not keep up with the English, "says Rummenigge.

Football First "was" Finance First "

The former Bayern CEO sees today's professional football on a dangerous path. It is no longer "Football First", but "Finance First," says Rummenigge. "We run after the money to generate even more revenue, but this additional revenue wander from the right pocket of the clubs in the left bag of players and their advisers." Here, the 66-year-old sees the large associations such as UEFA and FIFA in the responsibility to analyze the "football" and then "to make it more serious and fairer".