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[Football] German League
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perth seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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German football league drops plan to sell Bundesliga stake after fan protests | Bundesliga | The Guardian
Fans had gone to extreme lengths to draw attention to the issue and a spokesperson for the DFL executive committee said: ‘A successful continuation of the process no longer seems possible’
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Great news.
Makes me feel it’s a huge shame there wasn’t more English residence to the more shitty parts of the Premier League.
Wunderbar!
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Agree On several yearly visits to friends and relatives always try and take in a game. Some good stadiums and in so many ways has a much better feel about it than PL Just seems more about closeness of fans to club than about what wealthy person or country owns it.
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Can you explain Red Bulls involement with Stuttgart. I assume with whats going on now they dont own the club
I’m not sure what you mean? I wasn’t aware Red Bulls were involved with Stuttgart? They certainly don’t own them. Do you mean RB Liepzig? And the recent protests were against the DFB ie the governing body not clubs and their ownership structures.
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Yes sorry Liepzig. Dont clubs have to be 51% owned by supprters
The 50+1 principle was set up sometime ago and all clubs apart from Wolfsburg, Bayer and RB Liepzig follow this principal. Wolfsburg and Bayer were at the time when the 50+1 was set up were, and still are, “historic works football clubs” so they were allowed to continue as such. RB on the other hand are a brand new club and have pushed the rules to the limit. As I understand it they are 99% owned by a Red Bull subsidiary but the remaining 1% is a fan owned association which has the control of the club…..allegedly. Wikipedia goes into a lot more detail about this.
Wouldn’t happen in England.German football league drops plan to sell Bundesliga stake after fan protests | Bundesliga | The Guardian
Fans had gone to extreme lengths to draw attention to the issue and a spokesperson for the DFL executive committee said: ‘A successful continuation of the process no longer seems possible’