Overview
- The BVB president, in an interview published Wednesday, praised managing directors Lars Ricken and Carsten Cramer and urged them to speak up to keep Dortmund heard in the Bundesliga.
- He said he trusts the current management team 100 percent and will address any criticism only inside the club.
- He assigned the job of sharpening the club’s public profile mainly to Carsten Cramer, with Ricken set to support that effort.
- He said he did not take part in replacing sporting director Sebastian Kehl with Ole Book from SV Elversberg and turned down a pre-meeting with Book to avoid steering the choice.
- He defended Ricken’s record by pointing to the dismissal of Nuri Sahin and the hiring of Niko Kovac as firm calls, framing recent moves as part of a steady plan to keep Dortmund a strong voice in the league.