Has BVB-Boss Watzke talks with the Dortmund team after the attack on the team bus rendered incorrectly? Apparently, it was the suspended game against AS Monaco fierce discussions.
“No one has expressed the desire not to compete, the next day not,” said BVB managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke has reported the discussions that had taken place after the bomb attack on the Dortmund team bus. He didn’t put “Yes, for nothing of the team that each player play not be able to feel, can tell, of course, until the afternoon. Also the coach had the right of course. But with such a scenario, I was not Once confronted,” said Watzke. It was a matter of whether it is the shock to the players was unreasonable, only 24 hours later for the home game against AS Monaco.
According to the information of the weekly newspaper “die Zeit” that’s not true of this presentation. Because, apparently, there was an altercation, the team with the club’s management over the handling of the attack and the short-term Revaluation by the UEFA.
However, a different opinion as Watzke? Marco Reus
As the “time” reported in its Thursday published the latest edition, had multiple players during a team meeting before the completion of training for the postponed match against AS Monaco on 12. April (2:3) for a further postponement or cancellation of the game advocates, including national player Marco Reus. Reus stood up and said in the name of the team, the Dortmund CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke: “I think it is wrong that we play tonight.” It had developed a word exchange with Watzke. As the reaction was not reported until Gonzalo Castro and Reus’ point of view, supported, finally, three more players.
Common Position
The on Tuesday dismissed coach Thomas Tuchel had criticized after the Champions League game of the setting. It had pained the player infinite, “here’s a quarter-final takes place at home and you feel like inside”. Watzke defended himself. “It would have been on the afternoon of game day is always the option not to compete. We had tried to do it with UEFA. But no one seems to want to, because this offer was. We were after several conversations, very safe, to have a common Position with the coach,” said the BVB Boss of “time”.
The weekly newspaper further reported, had strained the relationship between the Trainer and the club since last summer after Borussia Dortmund, as promised, sold Mats Hummels, Ilkay Gündogan, and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Tuchel have this interpreted as a breach of trust.
asz/ck (sid, dpa)