Bresnik / Thiem dispute: "It is annoying that Günter does not give in financially"
Günter Bresnik and Dominic Thiem want to reach an out of court agreement , after the Australian Open there should be a conversation. However, Bresnik made it clear: "Contracts should be kept."
by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Jan 29, 2021, 11:41 am
He knows "that I've been the ungustl for everyone for 20 years," said Bresnik in an interview with the Kleine Zeitung . "But I'm not at all interested in a judicial solution. But contracts should be kept. I have a share in the success of Dominic and find that I more than deserve every penny I get."
Bresnik currently has a new task with Gael Monfils ("He has won too little. He knows that and now wants to change it."), But the Thiem case continues. "Dominic Thiem grew on my dung, without me it wouldn't exist." The current relationship with Thiem is "terrible", the 59-year-old regrets in a further conversation with diepresse.com , he hopes "for a sensible conversation in private. Because the current situation is unsympathetic and uncomfortable." Bresnik: "I don't think that he wanted all of this. I want to know how Dominic sees the matter, and I want to tell him how I see it. Dominic is a person with a high sense of justice, I know that from the past . And there has never been an argument or argument with me. But contracts are there to be kept. "
Allegedly it is about 450,000 euros income from sponsorship and equipment contracts, on which Bresnik insists as a manager. According to Thiem-Anwald Ainedter , Bresnik has so far collected 12 million euros with Thiem, saying that a coach receives 30 percent of prize money and sponsorship contracts for life is "fraudulent".
Straka about Thiem: "Off the pitch, of course, that worries him a lot"
The Bresnik interviews have of course also arrived in the current team, Thiem and Co. are already in Australia, Thiem will be on the field again for the first time on February 2, as part of the ATP Cup.
"It is annoying that Günter does not give in financially," says manager Herwig Straka. A new deal that would be acceptable for both sides has not yet come about. "And there is also zero approximation from his side."
After all: Thiem himself can "switch off completely" when he is on the field, Straka continued, "that is one of his strengths. But off the field he is of course very concerned."