When Hans-Joachim Watzke commented on the regulation of the successor for the recalled managing director Donata Hopfen last December, he spoke a memorable sentence: “Let’s see if we can do it ourselves without a personnel agency,” said the head of the DFL supervisory board, playing on one increasingly common practice in professional football, which he obviously dislikes. Watzke could have delegated the search to an expensive personnel consultant. But he was convinced that he found more expertise in his phone book and in his circle of acquaintances than an outside recruiting agency without intimate access to the League could ever offer him.
New bosses for the DFL: Lenz & Merkel – sounds like the previous evening series – sport
