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Bayern's General Assembly descending into chaos over the Qatar Airways sponsorship
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Is this the AGM @Hectic had in mind?
I think I see @Hansi Fick first row
Absolutely wild scenes
The Caf wouldn't be able to agree on the colour of the chairs, let alone deals with Qatar.
I hate Bayern with a passion, but credit where it's due to their fans
Good on the Bayern fans for showing some backbone. More than can be said about some of PL’s decision makers too.
This is the future
Class
The CAF are like the PL in terms of deals with human rights violators. The ammount of times I have read, who in their right mind would leave that much money is shocking.
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Why isn't Kahn there? I thought he's the new head honcho?
He's there, second from the left.
This is fantastic.
I think I saw him somewhere, but in general:
Almost all German clubs spun off their professional football operation into a separate entities (under the club's control, to comply with 50+1), so they can sell shares and protect the main club (or brand as some would say), which often also dabbles in other sports on a semi-professional/amateur level, from harm, if the football operation messes up. Kahn is an executive of the football division, this was the AGM of the club itself.
Oh, you're right.
He is there, but he isn't head of the club. This was the Bayern Munich Club AGM and the president is Herbert Hainer. The clubs owns 75% of the company that is responsible for operating the football business, and Kahn is the CEO of that company. So Hainer as the club president is still above Kahn, in a way you can compare his role to that of the owner of a PL club, just that the members of the club elect him to work in their interest.
The big question is how representative those members that attented the AGM are for the whole club. Bayern has a quarter million members, there were barely 800 at the meeting.
That's the Bundesliga Defence Force anytime a fellow German rival's player is underrated.
Also, well done to the fans. Look at the faces fo those smug cnuts holding the meeting.
Also, well done to the fans. Look at the faces fo those smug cnuts holding the meeting.
They should represent their fans better, respect their will, and stay true to the club’s name; Buy from what they earn.
Haha would love to see the Glazers doing the same thing 
The Deutsche Welle has a strange conception of chaos if they think loud vocal protest following the procedural denial of a vote concerning a point of order pre-submitted onto the agenda of an annual general assembly is chaos.
The difference is, the Glazers own United and give feck all about the fans. In case of German clubs the members (usually hardcore fans) own the clubs and if they are unhappy actually have the means to get rid of the board. (That's what the 50+1 rule mentioned by @do.ob ensures, only exceptions are Wolfsburg, Leverkusen and Hoffenheim, while Leipzig formally follows the rule but use a different loophole in limiting club memberships).Haha would love to see the Glazers doing the same thing
I wonder how many fans will put their money where their mouth is and boycott the next World Cup in terms of watching it or going to games. A tiny fraction, I suspect sadly.
People shouting over each other usually qualifies as chaos.
But I guess you had something like this in mind?
Though it could be said that after exhausting his allotted speaking time he threw a well measured punch and left the stage in an orderly fashion.
Legends
On the hand, Newcastle fans are treating Saudis as the second coming of Jesus.
This event is famous for things like this happening. Sometimes it is the fans having a meltdown and sometimes Uli Hoenes, but nothing that deserved its own thread really.
(Especially since Hainer invited the spokesperson of the group to talks afterwards.)
There has been more ruckus about ticketpricing and other issues in the past. This is not unique this is what an assembly where fans actually have a say looks like but i understand to most users on here getting to have a say in your club is a pretty foreign thought.
(Especially since Hainer invited the spokesperson of the group to talks afterwards.)
There has been more ruckus about ticketpricing and other issues in the past. This is not unique this is what an assembly where fans actually have a say looks like but i understand to most users on here getting to have a say in your club is a pretty foreign thought.
The question is, can the fans actually do something about this? Is there going to be a vote on whether to remove the president, given their clear discontent for him.
This is definitely the AGM @Hectic had in mind
Feck me... Those are the events that create the cliche of Germans being orderly, aren't they?
"What did democracy say to the face?"
"That isn't how democracy works!!" *smacks a guy in the face*
The news lady casually joking along
Best part of itThe news lady casually joking along
Hainer was elected for four years in 2019, so the next orderly vote would be during the AGM in two years. Removing him earlier would be possible, but would take some extraordinary processes
Dagmar Berghoff.. I'm fecking old
We're talking about it on an English forum, in Germany the topic made its way into the center of the mainstream and not really with a favourable spin for Bayern's executives. Arguably the fans already did something about it, even if they didn't score a decisive victory. The next step would be voting people out, when they come up for re-election or to come back with a refined motion that can make it through the courts next year.
We will see scenes like this at the NFL Draft soon enough.
Best managed club in the world, no doubts for me
The Germans stand up for Human rights and anti discrimination while we sell our souls to the the highest bidder. Who would have thunk it 75 years ago.
Are we the baddies?