Timo Werner
A legal dispute between two player agents reveals piquant details. It is also about the DFB team players Timo Werner and Niklas Süle.
On September 28th, the player agents Karlheinz Förster and Murat Lokurlu will meet in court. Both intermediaries accuse each other of not having received commission payments, reports the “Spiegel”.
Accordingly, Förster did not receive a payment of 600,000 euros after Werner signed his first professional contract in Stuttgart in the 2014/15 season. Lokurlu, for his part, claims that Förster did not pay commission. The player's agent underpinned this with hundreds of documents that were available to the news magazine and revealed piquant details.
According to a WhatsApp chat, Lokurlu is said to have already negotiated a Werner change with Liverpool in February 2019, according to which the “Reds” would have offered an annual salary of twelve million euros plus bonuses of up to 25 million euros. The consultant would have earned a commission of twelve million euros.
Werner is also said to have called Manchester United a “favorite” against Lokurlu. The “Red Devils” would have even submitted a contract offer via WhatsApp, offering 15 million euros per year. In 2020, however, Werner moved to Chelsea for 53 million euros.
However, the documents show that Werner is said to have signed a contract with Bayern a year earlier. “Timo Werner had quietly and secretly at the insistence of the plaintiff (Förster, note) – the player was not too enthusiastic about it – in the meantime already signed a fixed-term employment contract (…) with FC Bayern Munich”, it says in the documents .
The German team player had learned afterwards that Bayern sports director Hasan Salihamidzic and coach Niko Kovac were not very enthusiastic about his signature. Therefore, the striker Förster “vehemently” asked to dissolve the contract with the German series champion – which was also successful.
Förster's client had rejected the allegations against “Spiegel” that his client “basically does not urge his customers to sign contracts.”
In addition to Werner, Bayern defender Süle is also involved in the proceedings. The central defender had signed an affidavit stating that he was only represented by Förster from 2013 to 2020. Lokurlu now claims that the soccer player allowed himself to be “tricked into making a false affidavit.”
Both Werner and Süle have now changed their advisors. The presumption of innocence applies to all parties involved.
