With these words, Fredy Bickel said goodbye to GC

The new beginning with the Chinese investors is also the immediate end of Fredy Bickel as managing director at GC. The exemption came as a surprise to the 54-year-old, who has only been in office for six months.

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Bickel’s last sentence in his farewell post in the Grasshoppers player chat is called “Je ne regrette rien!” (“I have no regrets”) and is an allusion to Bickel’s favorite singer Edith Piaf and her biggest hit “Non, je ne regrette rien”. Bickel is a member of the “Association des amis d’Edith Piaf” and makes an annual pilgrimage to the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where Piaf has been buried since 1963.

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«Leave the office with your head raised»

BLICK has Bickel’s complete chat entry. With these words, the disappointed managing director said goodbye to the record champions:

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«A change of ownership usually also means a reorientation at the management level. As much as such decisions can hurt, they have to be accepted. I also do this and wish the Grasshopper Club only the best, good luck and success for the future.

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I will vacate my job for my successors and hand over my tasks. I leave the office with my head held high. I know that I have given everything for my club in the past few months.

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I would like to thank my employees on campus for loyally and with great dedication that they took a difficult journey with me in between. I thank Dr. Andràs Gurovits for the trusting, friendly and professional cooperation and the former owners, Stephan Anliker and Dr. Peter Stüber, for the trust that you have placed in me and your years of unbelievably great commitment to GC.

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In the past few months we have all been able to gain goodwill again, set up a functioning company organization, get finances under control and fall short of the expected minus by a seven-figure amount compared to the budget.

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I hand over a complementary, motivated and good coaching crew and a team that has been welded together over the past few weeks, strengthened internally and with great will and a lot of character! I believe in the strength of this team and continue to believe in our common, big goal: promotion to the Super League!

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Unfortunately, because of the Corona crisis, I cannot say goodbye to all companions personally. I am grateful to everyone in and around the club for spending time together, which was a lot of fun and joy for me.

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