It is “inevitably a concrete consideration to adjust the salary budget of the licensed player squad downwards when the times are as they are,” said TSG professional boss Alexander Rosen in an interview with “Heilbronner Voice”.
As a healthy club, the goal is always to be in the black on the balance sheet. “Expenses and income have to be balanced,” said Rosen. “If TV money, audience income and transfer revenues fall away, you can only reduce expenses if there are no new sources of income. That is relatively easy to understand. ”
Thanks to the transfer income of around 120 million euros in the summer of 2019, the association still has a financial cushion to bridge the difficult phase. «That won’t work in the long run. Neither with us, nor with any other club, ”emphasized the 41-year-old.
Rosen can also imagine reacting to the transfer market changed by Corona. Players like Andrej Kramaric or Florian Grillitsch, whose contracts expire in 2022, would not necessarily have to be given up at the end of the season.
«If it is not possible to extend a contract prematurely, and if there was no corresponding market situation for a player and thus the prospect of a high transfer income, you may have to consider in individual cases whether you risk a transfer-free departure to avoid the sporting one Maintain quality, ”said Rosen. “But we are not there yet.”
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