Where there are mistakes in business, there is a finger to point at the person responsible for the mistake.
When it comes to Jonathan Tah’s collapsed transfer from Bayer Leverkusen to Bayern Munich, talk of mistakes would be mostly inaccurate as the failed move originated from the different financial expectations of the two clubs more than anything else. But if something came close to a mistake that truly jeopardized the transfer of Tah, it would be the statements of Leverkusen’s CEO Fernando Carro, which go as follows: “I think nothing of Max Eberl, absolutely nothing. And I wouldn’t negotiate with him either.”
The comments were insulting enough for Bayern to release an official response by the club’s own CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen and, according to Max Bielefeld, an employee of the agency Gol International that represents Tah, they “poisoned” the talks between Bayer and Bayern. Florian Plettenberg captured his response:
“There is one thing that really complicated the negotiations. That was the public statements made by Fernando Carro. This shifted the situation away from negotiations into a personal matter, and after that, the discussions were poisoned.
We all, including Jonathan, would have wished that Fernando Carro had handled it a bit more professionally. From our perspective, that was not professional.”
It seems that these comments have not broken Tah’s relationship with the club nor his commitment towards giving his all this season, as evidenced by the German’s recent comments on the matter, but perhaps the subject of a Tah transfer to Bayern will open up again in another four months. This time only between Tah’s people and Bayern, without Carro to “poison” the talks…
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