Punishment for Bayern in this week?

[olafgb]

Is there something going on between the old Kirch friends? With disbelief some club officials got the news that last Tuesday there was a secret meeting between Bayern Munich’s Karl-Heinz Rummennigge and Uli Hoeneß as well as DFL members Wilfried Straub and Michael Pfad in the Airport-Hotel Kempinski in Munich.

The DFL gentlemen could have saved the travel costs. In the thought exchange about the secretly cashed 21.5 M Euro the parties could not reach an agreement. As FC Bayern did not tell the contract to DFL, they can be fined from paying up to 250.000 Euro, get a warning, point reduction or the licence can be annulled. An agreement on a contract penalty was not reached in Munich, now DFL wants to drop a decision within this week. DFL’s problem: a contract penalty would probably not stand a check of an ordinary court.

A fine against Bayern could cause problems with EU regarding the centralised TV marketing. Last Thursday Wilfried Straub was talking with EU Commissioner Mario Monti in this matter.

[PFSIKH]

I suppose banishment to Landesliga and stripping of every title since they joined the Bundesliga is too much to ask for.

[panicfc]

Originally posted by PFSIKH
I suppose banishment to Landesliga and stripping of every title since they joined the Bundesliga is too much to ask for.

This sounds perfectly fair to me.

[panicfc]

I failed to mention they have to lick the streets clean with their tongues.

:D

[JJ Mindset]

Sorry. I'm not familiar with the by-laws of the German Federation. Is the charge against the club or certain members of the club?

Since the story does have something to do with the accounting of the clubs, what are they required to report in terms of revenues and contracts?

Then again, "secretly cashed" may have a different meaning than over here. Some countries have stricter accounting laws than others. Still, 21.5 Euros(the number given) is a hefty amount of change. Where would the source of the money be? That's the more interesting question.

[panicfc]

Originally posted by JJ Mindset
Sorry. I'm not familiar with the by-laws of the German Federation. Is the charge against the club or certain members of the club?

Since the story does have something to do with the accounting of the clubs, what are they required to report in terms of revenues and contracts?

Then again, "secretly cashed" may have a different meaning than over here. Some countries have stricter accounting laws than others. Still, 21.5 Euros(the number given) is a hefty amount of change. Where would the source of the money be? That's the more interesting question.

The story is they had a seperate TV deal with Kirsch and pocketed 21.5 million just for them, outside of the money that they shared with the rest of the league.

Kirsch didn't want them to sign a seperate TV deal with a PPV network or something like that - so they gave them a bribe. Bayern wanted the bribe, so that appeased them. However it wasn't made known to the other clubs till Kirsch went out of business.