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Reuters
Jul 4, 2025, 07:09 AM ET
Borussia Mönchengladbach midfielder Florian Neuhaus has been fined and banished from the archetypal squad aft being filmed portion appearing to mock the Bundesliga club's sporting director.
In a video posted connected societal media, Neuhaus could beryllium seen talking to respective radical wearing Gladbach kits astir sporting manager Roland Virkus.
The 28-year-old appeared to telephone Virkus "the worst manager successful the world" and referenced the sporting director's relation successful deciding his yearly wage of €4 cardinal ($4.71m).
Gladbach said they had imposed a "heavy" good connected Neuhaus and suspended him from grooming with the archetypal squad for 4 weeks, with German regular Bild reporting the good was worthy astir €100,000.
"The behaviour and statements of Florian Neuhaus are damaging to the nine and unacceptable," Gladbach's CEO Stefan Stegemann said successful a connection connected Thursday.
"He has damaged the nine with his words and profoundly disappointed the radical involved, which is not compatible with the values of the club."
Neuhaus joined Gladbach successful 2017 and has made implicit 200 appearances successful each competitions for the club, but chiefly featured arsenic a substitute past play and played conscionable 17 times successful the league arsenic they finished 10th.
