Admira cuts in
One million for Magath’s biggest mistake
Under "mastermind" Felix Magath, Mo Cham was then discarded by Admira. Now, the transfer to Turkey is flushing money into the second division club's coffers.
There weren't many positive memories of Felix Magath during his one-year tenure as fly-arm mastermind at Admira. None at all, in fact. The numerous misjudgements and wrong personnel decisions made by the former German champion coach clearly outweigh the positives. However, one of his major mistakes is now costing Admira a pretty penny...
Looking back: In October 2020, shortly after Magath had replaced his friend Zvonimir Soldo as coach with Damir Buric, he decided to get rid of a certain Muhammed Saracevic, better known to the majority as Mo Cham. The technically adept attacking player had been brought to Admira from Wolfsburg II as a 19-year-old before Magath's time. Former managing director Thomas Drabek remembers: "Magath told me to sell the youngster because he didn't think he had what it takes for the Austrian Bundesliga."
Drabek struck a deal with the French club Clermont. "I had a good relationship with Clermont president Ahmet Schaefer right from the start. We turned the Cham transfer into a Cham project." Clermont only paid a transfer fee of 150,000 euros, while Admira received a 20 percent sell-on fee. Drabek thus negotiated a transfer fee almost twice as high as that previously paid for Sasa Kalajdzic and Morten Hjulmand, with whom the Südstädter were allowed to snack on over four million euros after their top transfers from Stuttgart to Wolverhampton and from Lecce to Sporting Lisbon respectively.
Cham, who had developed into an ÖFB team player in France, moved to Trabzonspor in the Turkish Süper Lig last week. The transfer fee was rumored to be five million euros, making Admira one million richer. Money that the Lower Austrian second division club can use all too well. Thank you, Felix...
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