Coman gets in the wrong car to training: tens of thousands of euros fine

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 10:35 AM• Mart Oude Nijeweeme • Last update: 10:33

Kingsley Coman fined by Bayern Munich after showing up at practice with the wrong car, reports BILD. According to the German boulevard newspaper, this involves an amount of 50,000 euros. Bayern players are obliged to come to the club in an Audi for club activities, given the gigantic sponsorship deal involved with the car group. Coman did not respond and decided to appear at the club in his white Mercedes AMG.

Coman was stopped at the gates of the Bayern training complex as he attempted to enter with his Mercedes. The winger was denied entry and forced to park his white SUV outside the gate. It is not the first time that Coman has gone wrong in this way. Last year he was fined the same when he arrived at the club in his McLaren 570S Spider. The Frenchman indicated at the time that the exterior mirror of his Audi was defective, so he had no other option.

In January last year, sports director Hasan Salihamidzic made a case for a tightened policy, which would prohibit players from coming to the club in their luxury private cars. The board of the club eventually agreed to the former midfielder’s demand, after which chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge imposed a definitive ban. Since then, selection players have been obliged to report to the club with cars belonging to the shareholder Audi or the Volkswagen AG.

Audi has been one of the most important sources of income for Bayern for years. The German car manufacturer extended the expiring commitment to 2029 last year, partly because BMW was willing to close a deal worth 800 million euros. The new deal with Audi should bring in a total of 500 million euros, about fifty million per contract year. Audi has been a partner of Bayern since 2002 and has also been a shareholder since 2010, as have Adidas and Allianz. All three partners own 8.33 percent of Bayern’s shares.

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