Investor Hasan Ismaik had in fact refused to make the payments required to preserve the club’s 3. Liga status. The man who had come to rescue the Lions from financial crisis and lead them back to greatness now marked their final collapse. Nobody had believed he would really go through with it.\n\nSilence.
So loud that nobody dared break it. No pleading, no begging, no powerless shaking of heads could change the Jordanian investor’s decision.