of The 1. FC Kaiserslautern puts in his existential crisis on a group of regional investors. This decision of the creditors ‘ Committee at the football-met League club Third on Wednesday unanimously. Its members see “in the regional group of investors, the best economic Basis for a sustainable and resilient future of the club,” said the FCK. The contracts must still be negotiated. Also, the debt is not yet secured.

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The four-time German champion had made in mid-June, a request for the opening of insolvency proceedings in self-administration test. “What we have today, which is a big step forward,” said Markus Merk, the Chairperson of the Board of Management GmbH and the former world Cup referee, at the press conference in the Fritz-Walter-Stadion. He asked after a turbulent few months in and around the Betzenberg: “We need rest, rest, rest!”

FCK managing Director, Soeren Oliver Voigt must develop together with the partners and lawyers are now ready to sign the contracts, which are then reviewed by the district court of Kaiserslautern-appointed administrator Andreas Kleinschmidt.

To the regional investors ‘ group spokesman Giuseppe Nardi Peter Theiss, Klaus Dienes, Dieter Buchholz and Axel Kemmler count. In the case of Nardi and co. is reported to offer around eight million euros. To the sum of the FCK, no information is required. With the money of the sporting continuity of the with over 20 million euros debt-ridden Fritz-Walter-clubs should be guaranteed.

Not in contract negotiations, the FCK is with the so-called Dubai group, behind its offer, the 71-year-old German businessman Horst Peter Petersen should be. The offer was doped according to media information is significantly higher than the regional investors. Kleinschmidt said that you can clarify the security of the transaction is not finally got. Also, there was the problem with the Association of legal regulations give. “The offer of the regional investors to better fit the club’s philosophy,” he said.

Only the group of regional investors have a Laundry “the requirements to a credit check, to money, to meet Compliance, as well as to the regulations and statutes of the DFB and the articles of Association of the FCK can,” said the managing Director of Voigt.