There was never any chance for this attempt to save the team to succeed. If there had been an interest in keeping the team alive, AEG wouldn't have announced all this less than seven days before the papers had to be handed in. The best bet is that with the Handball team already gone, they just decided that a complete overhaul in terms of arena-use would be the better alternative.
Just a few notes that Christoph Schubert had listed:
- 533k had been made through the crowd-funding campaign
- a total of 1.2 million Euro had been raised, including money from 20 different companies
- a new sponsor was prepared to pay 550k per year for ten years (on top of the 1.2 million)
Christoph Schubert can accomplish all that in a matter of days with the help of just a few people, and the freakin AEG cannot find a legitimate buyer for five years? nonsense.
The claim that they tried to sell for five yeas now is nothing but a lie. They publically announced that they weren't interested in selling anymore in 2012. They gave official word that they were very happy with the way the team was getting better and better financially, all that directly contradicts their claims. Not to mention that - as Schubert als mentions - hardly anyone in the sports business was aware that AEG tried to sell the Freezers, how can that be the case?
Simply put, they opted for a different approach with the arena and had to make up some sort of reason why they must let go of the hockey team.
