Berlin, October 23 (BUS): Bayer Leverkusen’s biggest talent, Florian Wirtz, was originally a Cologne player, and Cologne coach Stephen Baumgart was not happy before the two teams’ derby clash on Sunday due to the circumstances of the young player’s transformation. international.
Virts, 18, left Cologne in January 2020 for Leverkusen where he became a key player and German international.
Baumgart told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in a report provided ahead of Sunday’s publication that Werts should have stayed in Cologne because he rejected “unfortunate circumstances” by saying that Leverkusen had violated an agreement from 2001.
“He trained well over a very long time in our academy. There was an agreement between Cologne, Leverkusen and Mönchengladbach that you wouldn’t hunt in the talent division,” Baumgart said.
“That is cancelled. It shows us what kind of business we are in.”
However, Leverkusen’s sporting director, Simon Rolfes, argued that the agreement had not been breached because Wirtz was originally leaving after his contract in Cologne expired in June 2020, and that he had signed a professional contract for the first team at Leverkusen, not for youth or youth. reserve side.
Baumgart admitted that the city of Cologne “may not have reacted quickly enough” on the issue, adding that they also were not able to compete in terms of money with chemical industry Bayer-backed Leverkusen.
“The club there is affiliated with the company,” Baumgart said. “Cologne and Leverkusen both work under different conditions which is a factor in determining who these things are going for.”
The two teams meet after two major defeats in their last matches in the Bundesliga, as Cologne lost 5-0 in the middle of the standings in Hoffenheim, and Leverkusen, third-placed, fell 5-1 to defending champion Bayern Munich.
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