Thomas Kessler should stay at 1. FC Köln. (Photo: Bucco)
At 1. FC Köln everything revolves around the expiring contracts of the players. But license player manager Thomas Kessler does not yet have a valid contract beyond June 30, 2023. According to GEISSBLOG information, the extension is only a matter of form.
Timo Horn, Jonas Hector, Ellyes Skhiri, Jeff Chabot, Tim Lemperle and Kingsley Schindler: With these players from 1. FC Köln it is still unclear what will happen from summer 2023. A decision has already been made for all other FC professionals whose contracts are expiring (Andersson, Hübers, Schwirten).
But there is another expiring contract at 1. FC Köln: License player manager Thomas Kessler, employed in the summer of 2021 after the dismissal of Horst Heldt and equipped with a contract until 2023, has not yet extended. According to GEISSBLOG information, the talks are already underway, but the new working paper has not yet been fixed.
Kessler firmly planned in the new FC structure
Basically, everyone agrees that they want to continue working together. Kessler wants to help shape the upheaval that has just started at FC in a leading position. The new management knows about the value of the FC veteran within the club, the team and also the Bundesliga, where more and more ex-players are moving up into management positions, with whom or against whom Kessler has already played or with whom he has completed the certificate program ” Management in professional football” from the DFL and the DFB.
The fact that the 37-year-old will therefore receive and sign a new contract is considered certain, but according to information from this online newspaper has not yet been negotiated. The FC has just passed a new organizational structure under Sport Managing Director Christian Keller and initiated a change on numerous levels. Kessler acts as the division manager of the licensed player department and should remain so in the long term.
