The speed at which Werder Bremen mutated from a serious Hanseatic club to a club in self-destruction mode is breathtaking.
The bosses around Klaus Filbry and Frank Baumann are responsible for the sporting and sometimes also the financial crash. In the case of Markus Anfang, however, the entire club, which may have been damaged by criminal energy, is the victim.
Should the allegations prove to be true at the beginning and there are corresponding judgments, I would not shy away from Werder’s position to initiate a lawsuit myself for possible claims for damages.
But that’s all still speculative. The fact is: the damage to Werder’s already battered image is massive.
And whether through or through no fault of your own, you have more or less a share in it: Filbry (contract until 2024) and Baumann (contract until the end of the season) will remain in this period of decline and chaos.
They are the faces of the time when he went downhill with Werder. They will always carry this backpack around with them and cast a shadow over the club.
Therefore, you should ask yourself whether it would not be best for the club, in the interests of a really unencumbered restart, to vacate their own chairs by the summer at the latest.
When he said goodbye in September, the also not undisputed ex-supervisory board boss Marco Bode warned: “Werder must be ready for renewal and implement it.”
Apart from the fact that Bode himself never appeared as a very big innovator: Two months later, his warning for Werder is more burning and urgent than ever.
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