{"id":252523,"date":"2009-03-28T09:54:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T09:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/xmlimport\/index.php\/2009\/03\/28\/oliver-kahn-turns-down-schalke-offer-to-become-general-manager\/"},"modified":"2009-03-28T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T09:54:59","slug":"oliver-kahn-turns-down-schalke-offer-to-become-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2009\/03\/28\/oliver-kahn-turns-down-schalke-offer-to-become-general-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Kahn Turns Down Schalke Offer To Become General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"caption\" http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/images\/stories\/oliver_kahn.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"So, Oliver Kahn won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t after all be succeeding Andreas Mueller at Schalke and the search continues for a new general manager\" title=\"So, Oliver Kahn won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t after all be succeeding Andreas Mueller at Schalke and the search continues for a new general manager\" align=\"left\" \/>Former Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn has reportedly turned down an offer from Schalke to take over the vacant post of general manager at the Veltins Arena.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ex-German international legend informed the Gelsenkirchen club on Friday that he would not be accepting their offer to succeed Andreas Mueller, who was fired last week in response to a disappointing season. <\/p>\n<p>The ex-keeper has also been linked with the future general manager\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s post at Bayern Munich when Uli Hoeness moves upstairs at the end of the year, but that didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t play a role according to Kahn.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt wasn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t a tactical decision\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Oliver Kahn told Sportbild.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI would have loved to have done it, but the offer has simply come half a year too soon.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kahn, who retired following a stellar career last May, has recently been in Asia promoting his various interests and has also appeared as an expert on ZDF. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite declining the offer, Kahn revealed that it really wasn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t an easy decision to come to having discussed it at great length with his advisor Peter Ruppert.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt is just not the right time. I cannot fulfil my TV duties in China and have my head concentrated on Schalke,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he said. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The knock-back, while a disappointment for Schalke, won\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t set them back too much explained board member Clemens Tonnies.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not too bad and we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll carry on.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 We were all agreed on Oliver. He is highly professional and has a good vision. He would have been a huge coup for Schalke though\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Tonnies told Sportbild. \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So the search for a new general manager goes on, although Matthias Sammer, Heribert Bruchhagen, Oliver Bierhoff and Felix Magath have all already declared themselves to be not interested.<\/p>\n<p>Mathew Burt, Goal.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oliver Kahn Turns Down Schalke Offer To Become General Manager - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2009\/03\/28\/oliver-kahn-turns-down-schalke-offer-to-become-general-manager\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Oliver Kahn Turns Down Schalke Offer To Become General Manager - 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