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BVB Managing Director Hans-Joachim Wake has envisaged the profit of the Europa League at the Annual General Meeting of Borussia Dortmund. He also expressed himself to possible ghosts and the supposed exit clause of Erlang Haaland.

That's the title that is still missing Borussia Dortmund, Take said overlooking the Europa League and justified the out of the Champions League group phase with the failure of Erlang Haaland and the Scandalous red card for Mats Hummels in the home game Against Ajax Amsterdam.

A huge disappointment he called the departure, but referred to the season 2011/2012: At that time, we have become German champion and DFB cup winner at the end. Also, there we have failed in the fall as a preliminary fourth in the Champions League. We failed If this now need to convert again to positive energy. We now have to work with us to bring us back to the 13 million euros by winning the Europa League.

At the beginning of his speech, the 62-year-old came to talk about renewed ghosts and said, All the football persons believe that we need a significant reduction in audience numbers in this phase of the pandemic. For reasons of infection, and as a sign in the company in.

For ghost games in itself Wake is not. The state government in NRW plans to limit the viewer capacity to a third and to allow only seating. That would be the top game against Bayern on Saturday would take place before 26,000 spectators.

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Wake directed the appeal to politics, to keep measure and center in all seriousness — and not that only populism is engaged in being able to distract from own failures.

As for the economic situation of the Dortmund, Wake said that the pandemic has led the pandemic in the past two years, that our business model could no longer work fully, as the match day revenues were cut off.

The share price of the BVB is under pressure, Wake hoped for patience of the shareholders: As long as we do not have a functioning business model, so no full stadium, as long as it will remain difficult.

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Financial Managing Director Thomas Tree then looked at the numbers and betrayed that the BVB is under the stroke at a balance sheet total of minus 67.5 million euros compared to the previous year. The financial liabilities have 56.9 million euros, thanks to the capital increase, the financial liabilities stood today with zero.

In the subsequent questionnaire, a shareholder of Wake wanted to know if there was an exit clause of € 75-100 million in the Treaty of Erlang Haaland. I can not confirm an AK so, Wake said with regard to the mentioned conditions. However, there is probably a verbal agreement between the club and the player.

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