Admira cuts in
One million for Magath’s biggest mistake
Under "mastermind" Felix Magath, Mo Cham was then discarded by Admira. Now, the transfer to Turkey is flushing money into the second division club's coffers.
There weren't many positive memories of Felix Magath during his one-year tenure as fly-arm mastermind at Admira. None at all, in fact. The numerous misjudgements and wrong personnel decisions made by the former German champion coach clearly outweigh the positives. However, one of his major mistakes is now costing Admira a pretty penny...
Looking back: In October 2020, shortly after Magath had replaced his friend Zvonimir Soldo as coach with Damir Buric, he decided to get rid of a certain Muhammed Saracevic, better known to the majority as Mo Cham. The technically adept attacking player had been brought to Admira from Wolfsburg II as a 19-year-old before Magath's time. Former managing director Thomas Drabek remembers: "Magath told me to sell the youngster because he didn't think he had what it takes for the Austrian Bundesliga."
Drabek struck a deal with the French club Clermont. "I had a good relationship with Clermont president Ahmet Schaefer right from the start. We turned the Cham transfer into a Cham project." Clermont only paid a transfer fee of 150,000 euros, while Admira received a 20 percent sell-on fee. Drabek thus negotiated a transfer fee almost twice as high as that previously paid for Sasa Kalajdzic and Morten Hjulmand, with whom the Südstädter were allowed to snack on over four million euros after their top transfers from Stuttgart to Wolverhampton and from Lecce to Sporting Lisbon respectively.
Cham, who had developed into an ÖFB team player in France, moved to Trabzonspor in the Turkish Süper Lig last week. The transfer fee was rumored to be five million euros, making Admira one million richer. Money that the Lower Austrian second division club can use all too well. Thank you, Felix...
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Kommentare
Willkommen in unserer Community! Eingehende Beiträge werden geprüft und anschließend veröffentlicht. Bitte achten Sie auf Einhaltung unserer Netiquette und AGB. Für ausführliche Diskussionen steht Ihnen ebenso das krone.at-Forum zur Verfügung. Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.
User-Beiträge geben nicht notwendigerweise die Meinung des Betreibers/der Redaktion bzw. von Krone Multimedia (KMM) wieder. In diesem Sinne distanziert sich die Redaktion/der Betreiber von den Inhalten in diesem Diskussionsforum. KMM behält sich insbesondere vor, gegen geltendes Recht verstoßende, den guten Sitten oder der Netiquette widersprechende bzw. dem Ansehen von KMM zuwiderlaufende Beiträge zu löschen, diesbezüglichen Schadenersatz gegenüber dem betreffenden User geltend zu machen, die Nutzer-Daten zu Zwecken der Rechtsverfolgung zu verwenden und strafrechtlich relevante Beiträge zur Anzeige zu bringen (siehe auch AGB). Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.