At Hamburger SV there is a crisis again. After the departure of CFO Thomas Wüstefeld, President Marcell Jansen has also come under heavy criticism. There are demands for his resignation, which the 36-year-old rejects. At the same time he takes a step towards the controversial investor Klaus-Michael Kühne.
Marcell Jansen got louder – and switched to defense mode. Yes, the problems are piling up at Hamburger SV. But no, the club boss is not thinking of resigning. “I’m not going to marry anything – because I’m independent. And always was and will always be,” said Jansen, who is now heavily criticized after the crash of CFO Thomas Wüstefeld. And complained: “Here in Hamburg, everything is always viewed a bit critically.”
Jansen “stumbles” wrote the “Hamburger Morgenpost”, now “Jansen must follow” demanded the “Abendblatt”, and the “kicker” saw in the crisis PK in the course of the Wüstefeld resignation an “occurrence of missed opportunities”. former international. At HSV, everyone looks to Jansen, the boss of the supervisory board and president of the association. But the man, who now has to find solutions quickly, is under massive pressure himself.
What will happen to billionaire Klaus-Michael Kühne’s 120 million offer? What will become of the expiring contracts of Jonas Boldt, currently sole director, and trainer Tim Walter. What will become of the expensive stadium renovation to be the venue for the home EM 2024? Who will succeed Wüstefeld, who fell over all the allegations and inconsistencies? Jansen plays for time. The “long” winter break “will be used to set the first course.” And he is relaxed: “We are just forgetting what is going well.”
In fact, things are going well at HSV in terms of sport, but the rest is overshadowed by all the unrest and unanswered questions. Perhaps there will be initial answers after the general meeting of AG shareholders at the end of November. But the meeting is spicy. Ultimately, Wüstefeld still holds around five percent of the shares that he had bought from Kühne. The two managers broke up because of the purchase price.
The “quarrel between two shareholders and the fact that Mr. Kühne demanded a head naturally influenced the supervisory board,” said Jansen. The 36-year-old is rather skeptical about Kühne’s offer – in contrast to Boldt. After all, the logistics company only opens its safe under certain conditions – one of which was, so to speak, “fulfilled” by Wüstefeld’s resignation.
Now Jansen took a step towards the Kühne, who was controversial among the fans. “If he wants to help HSV without demanding ‘power’ or ‘making claims’,” he said, “then we would be stupid if we didn’t accept it.”
