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Monday briefing: Hans-Joachim Watzke calls for calm over Bundesliga investment plans

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DFL supervisory board chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke has called for calm amid fan protests and demands for a new vote over the plans to sell a stake in the Bundesliga’s media rights business to a private equity firm.

Blackstone withdrew from the race to invest in the media rights unit last week, leaving CVC Capital Partners as the sole remaining bidder. Jost Peter, chairman of the fan group ‘Our Curve’, claimed Blackstone’s withdrawal was the “first success of the protests”.

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