According to Lüthi, SC Bern will likely close this season with an operating loss of CHF 2-2.5 million: "The situation is not yet existential, but if it continues like this, then it will be for all clubs that, like us, are not supported by patrons."
Lüthi also makes clear that while it is important for SC Bern to have a competitive team ("we will definitely have a better team next season"), their finances have to have top priority or else they risk returning to the brink of bankruptcy like in 1998.
Lüthi also talked about his past mistakes and what he has learned from them: "Hiring a cheap coach, that was a mistake. In retrospect, signing Florence Schelling was also a mistake. Not because she is a woman. But because she was too young, had not enough experience, and was with us at a time when it was probably most difficult to do this job."
He also adds that it was mostly not Schelling's fault but theirs: "We underestimated the impact of Covid and also the impact of our austerity measures." Still, he says the next time he would do things differently: "The next Florence I will hire as an assistant, she can then work her way up, just like any man does."
Berner Zeitung: "«Die nächste Florence werde ich als Assistentin einstellen»
