TeBe In The Press
More rumours and stories today in the Tagesspiegel:
It looks like R.Maschke is now 6 months without pay but Peter A says that there will be a clean break and admits the payment problems. Dejan may have to run the club alone and we are going to get rid of a few players because of a serious cash problem. The article goes on to claim that we are talking a 6 figure sum. Why?
It seems that the club was so sure that they would be number 1 that the sponsors do not have to actually pay the money unless TeBe are going up, something that Babelsberg's amazing form has blown. According to the article Peter A complains that the other clubs in the league, especially those in Brandenburg, are getting government money to help them - something that TeBe are not.
Of course this is just press speculation and we are still waiting for the official statements from the club that will come tonight or tomorrow after the general meeting.
Interesting is the last part of the article:
A translation from Peter A's statement would be approximately: "It is no fun, continually being insulted on away matches in the east as Jew pack or West Berlin shit. You give up the enthusiasm to carry on. Perhaps it would be better if we disappeared into the league below." This is the Verbandsliga and based in Berlin.
Of course life in the Verbandsliga may be a little more friendly at least but when the press are speculating that the club might be bankrupt the fact that Peter A is even mentioning the lower leagues gives many of us fans the fear.
And remember the lower leagues in Berlin may not be as rosy as Peter A might think. Anyone remember this?:
Text from Jim at Ten German Bombers site here.
Berlin - Peter Antony schwebt eine „ruhige, saubere Trennung“ vor. Dass Fußball-Oberligist Tennis Borussia und sein Sportchef Ronald Maschke in Kürze ihre Zusammenarbeit beenden, ist längst beschlossene Sache. Nur das Wie muss noch abschließend geklärt werden. Maschke behauptet, „seit sechs Monaten ohne Bezahlung zu sein“, und Antony, der TeBe-Vorsitzende, gibt zu: „Wir stehen bei ihm noch in der Kreide.“ Die Einstellung eines neuen Sportchefs planen die Borussen nicht. Auch der Posten des vor kurzem entlassenen Kotrainers Marko Maschke, Bruder des Sportchefs, bleibt unbesetzt, Cheftrainer Dejan Raickovic muss künftig alleine zurechtkommen. Aber für Raickovic wird die Arbeit auch übersichtlicher, denn TeBe dünnt seinen Kader für die Rückrunde aus. Der Grund für den Personalabbau ist ein ganz einfacher: An allen Ecken und Enden fehlt das Geld.
It looks like R.Maschke is now 6 months without pay but Peter A says that there will be a clean break and admits the payment problems. Dejan may have to run the club alone and we are going to get rid of a few players because of a serious cash problem. The article goes on to claim that we are talking a 6 figure sum. Why?
TeBe kalkulierte für die laufende Saison mit einem Etat von 350 000 Euro. Die Verträge mit den Sponsoren haben nur einen Haken: Sie sind stark erfolgsabhängig. Aber die Mannschaft erfüllte die hohen Erwartungen nicht annähernd, dümpelte lange Zeit im Mittelfeld der Tabelle, und auch darunter, herum, ehe sie sich bis zur Winterpause allmählich aufrappelte und nun Platz drei belegt, allerdings bereits mit zwölf Punkten Abstand zu Spitzenreiter Babelsberg 03. Für einen Großteil der Sponsoren besteht nur dann Zahlungspflicht, wenn TeBe Tabellenerster ist. Eine etwas verwegene Etatplanung, die prompt dazu geführt hat, dass dem Verein jetzt bei Saison-Halbzeit eine sechsstellige Summe zur Deckung aller Kosten fehlt.
It seems that the club was so sure that they would be number 1 that the sponsors do not have to actually pay the money unless TeBe are going up, something that Babelsberg's amazing form has blown. According to the article Peter A complains that the other clubs in the league, especially those in Brandenburg, are getting government money to help them - something that TeBe are not.
Of course this is just press speculation and we are still waiting for the official statements from the club that will come tonight or tomorrow after the general meeting.
Interesting is the last part of the article:
Ohnehin ist TeBe das Oberligadasein langsam leid. In sentimentalen Momenten plagen Peter Antony auch schon mal Rückzugsgedanken. „Es macht keinen Spaß, wenn wir bei unseren Auswärtsspielen im Osten dauernd als Judenpack oder als Westberliner Scheiße angepöbelt werden. Da verliert man die Lust“, sagt er. „Vielleicht sollten wir uns besser in die Verbandsliga verabschieden.“
A translation from Peter A's statement would be approximately: "It is no fun, continually being insulted on away matches in the east as Jew pack or West Berlin shit. You give up the enthusiasm to carry on. Perhaps it would be better if we disappeared into the league below." This is the Verbandsliga and based in Berlin.
Of course life in the Verbandsliga may be a little more friendly at least but when the press are speculating that the club might be bankrupt the fact that Peter A is even mentioning the lower leagues gives many of us fans the fear.
And remember the lower leagues in Berlin may not be as rosy as Peter A might think. Anyone remember this?:
Berlin club protests about anti-Semitic abuse
Players of lower-league team Tus Makkabi walk off pitch after facing 'gas the Jews' and 'Auschwitz is back' chants
A Berlin lower-league club has complained to German soccer authorities about anti-Semitic chants that they faced at a recent match.
Players from Jewish club TuS Makkabi in the Berlin district league, five divisions below the Bundesliga, walked off the pitch in protest in the 78th minute of the match at VSG Altglienicke in east Berlin.
The statement from Makkabi can be found (in German) here.
Consider some of the chants the players were confronted with:
- "Synagogues must burn"
- "Führer , Führer , Führer, Führer"
- "Ausschwitz is back"
- "This isn't a Jew state, this isn't the German Jew Republic"
- "Gas the Jews"
- "JEWS, JEWS, JEWS"
- "The Federal Republic don't rule here, the NPD [neo-Nazi party] rule"
And for something totally nuts, while standing by the touchline, near the referee, and being abused by fans, a Makkabi player turned to the ref and said "Did you hear that?" The ref looked at him and said "No". Later, Makkabi player Vernen Liebermann, just before the game was abandoned, said to referee Brüning "If you have an ounce of decency for history in this country, then you must help us now". As a response, Brüning sent him off.
When you consider that TuS Makkabi is the only recognisable Jewish club, certainly in Berlin, and that the authorities did nothing or deliberately chose to turn a blind eye, this is scary, especially as it was a German 5th division away match in a pretty nasty part of Berlin. Those players really could have got badly hurt, no-one helped them at all, and they were forced to walk off themselves to make an issue of it.
Text from Jim at Ten German Bombers site here.
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