After the surprising departure of Jonas Boldt Bayer presents 04 Leverkusen Simon Rolfes as a sports Director. Sports Director Rudi Völler thinking, meanwhile, about the end of his career in the factory club.
The eyes of Simon Rolfes incident. It was, after all, a joyous occasion. The Ex-professional of Bayer 04 Leverkusen was presented as the new sporting Director of the club. Was embedded Rolfes of Bayer group CEO Fernando Carro and sporting Director Rudi Völler, both the night before on the 70. Birthday of Ex-Bayer Manager Reiner Calmund and by his own admission were still a bit tired. The more the good mood of the 36-Year-old Rolfes stood out.
Will be responsible for from now on the sporting fortunes of the club. So he inherited Jonas Boldt, who had originally started out as a trainee at Bayer 04, and just last summer, in the athletic Director Position. “At that time, as an Intern, he was still smaller than me. He is shot later in the level,” said Rudi Völler with a subtle Smile on his face and pointed to what a close relationship had both built up in the past few years.
Silence of the separation reasons
This super-fast development in the club’s leadership seems to have Völler surprised, stressed, “to be with Jonas in the clear”, even if both of them had once thought differently, and this is also “openly and directly discussed”. That this time is unusual, “of course,” said Völler. Yet a short time ago, both he and Boldt assumed to make in the coming years, the fortunes of the club with as much confidence as in the past, together. Völler had adopted a few weeks ago extra a new Item to give “Jonas a little more room for manoeuvre”.
Rudi Völler remember, withdraw
Not to mention why the separate ways now, but no later than the end of the season, this is the question the protagonists. It seems to not go but hardly to the views of bridging between Völler and Boldt, but rather to discrepancies at a higher level. “I had imagined this differently,” said Völler with a bit of a sad look. “It is always somehow in football.”
Perhaps also from its apparent disappointment out Völler threw then out of the blue, that he had forgotten an important point: “It is quite normal and proper that we take consciously a break. With Stefan Kießling, who still needs to learn a bit. I am already 58 years old, also for me, it is at last,” said Völler. For this reason, he had to draw about a year ago.
Völler would like to continue to occur in the Background
This is also why Jonas Boldt, who had previously rejected requests from other clubs always got, more responsibility attributed. For Völler Boldt was in fact the legitimate successor on the Post of the sports Director. Now came yet everything is different. Völler, who still has a contract until 2021 at the factory club, supported his statement about his future: “I would like to a little in the Background.” The recent developments in the club should not have made Völler this announcement just heavier. The extent to which he will retire, Völler.
There is much to do for Simon Rolfes in the new role
Simon Rolfes, who was most recently responsible for the youth work in the club, will listen in the next days and weeks in his new Job, in which he has no experience, to work in and “it is precisely in the team”. Wherever he wants with the club in the future, as the new sports Director, remained vague and was not a route to elicit.
“We want to continue to improve, therefore, a new Generation with new ideas,” said Völler in the direction of Rolfes. And in the direction of Jonas Boldt, he noted. “Should Jonas have a deal where he would have to before the summer out of his contract, then we will talk about it, of course,” said Völler. This seems to be the least that would do Völler for his long-time companion.