Hoeness

Wolfsburg terminated the contract of their manager Dieter Hoeness on Thursday, Bild reported, and Magath will combine the functions of coach and manager, as he did in his first stint in Wolfsburg.

Felix Magath on his way back to manage struggling Wolfsburg 2011

While the club's president Uli Hoeness called the decision to arrest the 21-year-old "out of proportion", "very dubious" and "inhuman", the coach Jupp Heynckes said the incident coincided with the player being told that he needs a new operation on his injured knee.

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You can see just why Hoeness would have been tempted to raise the stakes.

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[The Bayern Munich directors] Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge are the most outspoken but Florentino Pérez [the Real Madrid president] is the same.

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Uli Hoeness, a World Cup winner with West Germany in 1974, now splits his time between running Bayern Munich and running one of Germany's biggest sausage companies.

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Dieter Hoeness had to strain his vocal chords again in a long dressing-room monologue.

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That's what Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness said he expected from Saturday's match with league-leading Borussia Dortmund.

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Katseli also said she would listen to Papandreou's speech tonight before deciding whether to back him.5.14pm: Before things get too heated in Greece, let's post this jolly tale from David Gow:The "live ticker" on spiegel.de has made a wonderful contribution to German-Hellenic understanding by quoting at length Uli Hoeness - remember him England?

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Hoeness believes Wolfsburg have had a "mentality problem" ever since that success and after a 2-1 defeat against Nürnberg in October he was so angry with the "basic attitude of the players" he felt compelled to go into the dressing room after the game – something he had never done before – to give his own impression of Sir Alex Ferguson's hairdryer.

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"In 35 years in football, I've never seen anything like it," said Hoeness.

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