BAyern Munich’s honorary president Uli Hoeneß defended Schalke’s supervisory board boss Clemens Tönnies against what he considered excessive criticism in the wake of the massive corona outbreak in his meat business. “Sometimes it reminds me of my time with the tax business. I think if you are in such a machine, everyone tries to overtake the other with his criticism, ”said 68-year-old Hoeneß in the program“ Blickpunkt Sport ”on Bavarian TV on Sunday evening.
He is with Tönnies (64), with whom he has been friends for a long time. “I have to honestly say: if mistakes are made, you have to stand by it. He does. If things have to be changed, then you have to do it. I assume that he will do it if necessary, ”said Hoeneß. “But it can’t be that everything that he has done, that he has built up for a large company, is now suddenly in ruins. But that is a sign of our society. When it’s your turn, there’s no stopping you. And he is experiencing that first hand now. “
Tönnies is currently under massive pressure as head of the company and as boss of the Bundesliga soccer club FC Schalke 04. In the main plant of the Tönnies meat group in the district of Gütersloh, well over 1,000 employees were infected with the corona virus. That is why there was fierce criticism of the working conditions in the Tönnies company. Many Schalke fans are calling for the chairman of the supervisory board to resign from the royal blue team.
Uli Hoeneß, son of a butcher, built his own sausage factory in his life. The company in Nuremberg has been managed by his son Florian for many years.
Salary cap in football
Hoeneß, meanwhile, does not see a means for more balance in football in an upper salary limit and does not consider it feasible. “You can forget them,” said the 68-year-old in the BR on the discussed proposal for an upper salary limit in the Corona crisis. “It does not lead us further, they are all hypocritical discussions.”
In the Bundesliga, one should rather try to “make a fair distribution of television money” for the four seasons from 2021 to 2025 after the new television contract has been signed. Hoeneß did not say what this should look like. The long-time thought leader of the league does not expect a long-term drop in revenues: “When the Corona crisis is over, football will prosper again.”
In view of the eight consecutive Bayern championship, Hoeneß asked the competition to “just make more effort” for an exciting Bundesliga title fight. “You can’t expect FC Bayern people to work only half a day to make the Bundesliga exciting again,” said Hoeneß, prophesying to the once again unsuccessful Bayern hunters like Borussia Dortmund or RB Leipzig this season : “It will also be difficult for the others to get us down there in the future. Because FC Bayern is well equipped for the future even in this crisis. “
Believe in the Bayern triple
This year Hoeneß also trusts his Bayern Munich triple. “If our team can preserve shape, we have a good chance of really winning everything,” said Honorary President of the German soccer record champion with a view to the DFB Cup final against Bayer Leverkusen next Saturday in Berlin and the continuation of the Champions League in August with a final tournament in Lisbon.
Hoeneß praised coach Hansi Flick and the players for the achievements in winning the eighth championship title in succession in the ghost game business because of the corona pandemic. You have to be very grateful in the club “The team and the coach were very grateful that they held the flag up in difficult times,” said the long-standing manager and president proudly. Bayern have won the triple under coach Jupp Heynckes in 2013.
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