Winter Break

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I had done a practice run for backing out of Yannik Voigt’s contract, but that rehearsal never had to be used for real.

Unfortunately, Union Berlin was no longer that poor of a club.

‘Grr, our club had really grown....’

Well, I did know, in fact, that the club had grown a lot.

But knowing it and acting on it are different things.

All of this was because, over the past two years and in my previous life, I had only ever managed cash-strapped municipal clubs.

The miserly habit of trying to save every penny had been engraved into my body as muscle memory.

Well, still, the rehearsal wasn’t completely useless.

My little sister saw me practicing a contract reversal with a doll and, looking touched, promised additional funding...