{"id":5190,"date":"2010-05-09T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5190"},"modified":"2010-05-09T06:43:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T10:43:12","slug":"schumacher-says-manager-wrong-about-no-sponsors-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/schumacher-says-manager-wrong-about-no-sponsors-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher says manager wrong about &#8216;no sponsors&#8217; claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between Michael Schumacher and his long time manager Willi Weber appears to have cooled.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Schumacher&#8217;s spokeswoman Sabine Kehm has this year taken over the day-to-day management of the seven time world champion, although Weber is still involved in merchandising and sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>Weber, who guided the German throughout his ultra-successful initial career, said this week that he senses a &#8220;Schumi-tiredness&#8221; within the public that could explain low merchandise sales in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old also said &#8220;Vettel is the new Schumi&#8221; commercially, while it is &#8220;easier to find a 50-year-old virgin&#8221; than sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher said in Barcelona: &#8220;Some of the things he said I cannot understand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sabine has actually been very successful in finding sponsors, and nearly at every race the team has a new sponsor.\u00a0 It is his view,&#8221; the 41-year-old told Bild-Zeitung.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between Michael Schumacher and his long time manager Willi Weber appears to have cooled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5261,5340,92,250,334],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5190\/revisions\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}