Roumenigue demanded the cancellation of the ownership rule of the clubs in Germany

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Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge called on the Bundesliga bosses to repeal the rule that prohibits large brands from owning more than 50 percent of football clubs in Germany. According to Rummenigge, this rule prevents the German teams from being competitive with the strongest teams in Europe.
`Our behavior on this issue is only a smile here in the United States, and I know that in Germany everyone is worried that if this rule is dropped, we will lose the opportunity to compete with other big teams in Europe, but that is not true. Germany will win Our choice is either to follow the example of other countries or pay the price for our inactivity This populism, which reaches absurd levels in more clubs but mostly in the German Football Association, must be stopped. Germany is not an isolated onestealthy, `added the former striker.


In March of this year, the majority of the 36 clubs mentioned by asian handicap odds in the First and Second Bundesliga voted to maintain the rule that allows companies (as in the case of Wolfsburg and Bayer Leverkusen) and businessmen (as in Hoffenheim) to own over 50 percentof the shares of a team only if you have invested substantial sums in it for more than 20 years.

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