Overview
- The Werder Bremen supervisory board voted 9:0 on Sunday to retain Clemens Fritz as Geschäftsführer Fußball and publicly confirmed their continued trust in his leadership.
- The board said Fritz showed management qualities during the crisis and implemented process and coordination changes during the season that helped stabilise the club.
- The supervisors acknowledged concrete failures in sporting planning and transfer policy last summer, including heavy use of loan signings and a striker signing that did not deliver the expected results.
- Fritz is now focused on generating transfer income to shore up club finances, with the sale of goalkeeper Mio Backhaus to SC Freiburg for more than €10 million already completed and further departures possible.
- The board set clear expectations for the coming season — stable development, greater consistency and more offensive impact — and said specific targets will be defined after the new squad planning is finished.