FC Bayern is cutting some of the salary for unvaccinated professionals. According to BR information, all players who have to be quarantined because of a missing corona vaccination will no longer be paid during this time. This is especially true for those in the past few weeks The public focused on Joshua Kimmich and four other players. The association did not want to comment on this message.
“If what the Bild-Zeitung reports is correct, it is certainly to be understood as a sign that the association is now reacting”. Former Bayern boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on “Sky90 – the football debate”.
Notification received the day before the game against Augsburg
Last Thursday, according to BR information, the unvaccinated Munich players were said to have been informed that their salary will be retrospectively deducted from the quarantine week. With that they wanted Bayern bosses around the CEO Oliver Kahn, President Herbert Hainer, Sports director Hasan Salihamidzic and CFO Jan-Christian Dreesen set an example and increase the pressure for a vaccination.
According to reports in the Bild newspaper, national players Serge Gnabry (26) and Jamal Musiala (18) as well as Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (32) and Michael Cuisance (22) are still without protection. Only Cuisance is said to be excluded from the measure because it did not have to be quarantined.
Almost 400,000 euros lost for a week of quarantine at Kimmich
For Kimmich, according to media reports, with an estimated annual salary of around 20 million euros, the loss means around 384,000 euros per week. Most recently because of the COVID-19 infection of National player Niklas Süle including the Bayern stars Kimmich, Gnabry, Musiala and Choupo-Moting as contact persons in quarantine.
Affected players “very surprised”
The players are said to have been “very surprised” by the measures, BR information confirms. Accordingly, individual players even reserve the right to take legal action.
Kimmich was absent on Friday in the surprising 1: 2 defeat in the derby at FC Augsburg, as he had to be quarantined again as an unvaccinated contact person for a corona infected person. According to a regulation by the city of Munich, employees are not entitled to quarantine-related loss of earnings if that happens because they are not vaccinated.