Karl-Heinz Rummenigge in an interview

'PALO' OF THE DIRECTIVE OF THE BAYERN

Rummenigge stirs up Barça's finances: "We shouldn't take him as an example"

Published:15/04/2022 - 15:09h

Updated:15/04/2022 - 15:09h

While Bayern Munich digests the tough elimination from the Champions League against Villarreal, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, former executive director of the club, boasted about the Bavarian financial management and took the opportunity to criticize FC Barcelona

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Karl-Heinz Rummenigge conversed with the German magazine 'Kicker' after the elimination of the Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in front of the Villarreal (1-1; 2-1 global). In addition to expressing his opinion on the moment of the team after the hard and unexpected continental elimination, the ex executive director Bavarian took advantage of to value the financial management of the club like starting point split to schedule the next season, no without before leave a 'stick' to the directive of the FC Barcelona.

In accordance with the current representative of the European Association of Clubs, "the Bayern always has had fame to be a club virtuoso and free of debts that never needed to ask loans. Neither mortgage. We do not have to take to the Barcelona like example, the Bayern always has had a system of serious finance", commented the German. It does a year, the then director of the ones of Munich manifested his estupor after knowing the figures of the indebtedness culé: "Wail deeply that European clubs can endeudarse like this. Almost me atraganto when I read the figure", said in February of 2021 to 'Sky Sports'.

In this moment, the directive headed by Joan Laporta works arduously to mitigate the financial problems of the institution, although the indebtedness will keep on being elevated. To the agreement with Spotify adds the credit requested to Goldman Sachs and the agreement with CVC, with which the Barça expects to square box to define the staff of face to the next season. Unlike the Bayern, the culés struggle for going out of the economic problems inherited of the previous managerial.

Regarding the failure in Champions, Rummenigge thinks that, for the moment, the group directed by Julian Nagelmann does not have to 'break the market' in summer to look for reinforcements, since the club has at least 18 players that will contest the World-wide of Catar. "The problem is not that there is not quality in the bench", explained the ex German forward. By the contrary, Karl-Heinz if it thinks that "the problems to close renewals yes generated restlessness", in front of which mentioned the cases of Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka, Kingsley Eat and, more recently, Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Serge Gnabry and Robert Lewandowski.

The praises of Rummenigge to the Villarreal

Contrary to the criticisms to the financial model of the Barça, the German director elogió the work made by the 'yellow Submarine'. "The Villarreal is a very armed team, with a structure salarial wise and a big trainer,", said Rummenigge. "I follow to Unai Emery from does a lot. All the world knows that he dominates the eliminatory direct and showed that, with an intelligent tactics, can him complicate the life to the Bayern", puntualizó Karl-Heinz. For the Bavarians, the only remaining aim in the 2021-22 will be to ensure the title of the Bundesliga, tournament that lead with nine points of advantage to fault of five days.

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