The Hamburg sports club repeatedly stood behind employees against whom serious allegations were made. In 2019, for example, there were headlines about the identity of the winger almost every day Bakery Jatta there, and also three years later, as the defender Mario Vušković tested positive for the banned doping drug EPO was tested.

At Stefan Kuntzwho was the sports director at HSV until the end of December, things are different.

When HSV separated from Stefan Kuntz at the beginning of the year announcedthe man who was largely responsible for the club’s promotion to the First Bundesliga, the official reason was brief. The sports director asked the supervisory board to terminate the contract immediately for “personal family reasons”.