“So they thought…”
Kruse scolds the Deutsche Bahn
07.05.2022, 18:58
Max Kruse is in a bad mood: the VfL Wolfsburg striker first finds words for coach Felix Magath that don’t go down well everywhere. Now Kruse is targeting Deutsche Bahn. The reason for a small tirade: stress when traveling to the away game in Cologne.
VfL Wolfsburg unexpectedly had to change trains on the way to the last away game of the Bundesliga season at 1. FC Köln. “Actually, we should drive to Cologne, but the air conditioning in our car failed,” reported Wolfsburg striker Max Kruse in an Instagram story. Accordingly, the team in Hamm simply had to get out.
“It is true that a single ICE 858 car had to be cleared yesterday due to a fault in the air conditioning system in Hamm. However, there was a special train in Hamm that passengers could switch to,” said a railway spokeswoman. The special train reached Cologne Central Station 20 minutes after the ICE.
However, Kruse did not mention this in his story and interprets the incident in a somewhat shortened way: “They thought: let’s punish everyone who is sitting in the compartment or car and just throw them out,” said Kruse: “They just have to get off and have to catch another train. It’s our fault, so to speak.” VfL Wolfsburg, which was hit so badly, won its game at 1.FC Köln 1-0 despite the heavy demands during the journey.
In the previous week, Kruse, who shares his thoughts very offensively and mostly unfiltered with his supporters via his social media channels, caused a bad mood at his club: Kruse had received a reprimand from the sporting management of VfL Wolfsburg because he Felix Magath, the former (and only) champion coach of Lower Saxony, had described as “sick” because of his training methods. The club’s management found the striker’s comments, who failed to score against 1. FC Köln, “inappropriate”.