He took no sheet before the mouth. At the event, “VfB in the dialogue” at the Museum of a large Stuttgart-based car manufacturer Thomas Hitzlsperger spoke out about what many Fans if not probably thinking for months, even for years. “Some of the clubs ahead of us, that you are very clear in what players and coaches get,” said Hitzlsperger on Thursday. “If we know about it, how we want to play football, which requirement profiles need the Trainer, then it’s easier for us in the selection.” Finally, it was expired at the VfB but always after a different pattern: “We get a coach who takes his team of trainers, the wishes of a few players and if the coach is gone, half the squad for the new coach, again, uninteresting.”
The current team of the VfB is poorly put together, the Hitzlsperger between the lines says. Especially since you should devote herself to other tasks. The second half of the last season ended, the Swabians with 34 points, a total it reached at the end of the season for the seventh place. The head-coach Tayfun Korkut, whose obligation a lot of VfB Fans had reacted with scorn, ridicule, and gallows humor, suddenly became regarded as a bringer of salvation and paving the way for the return to Europe, which put the environment of the club as a measuring stick for a successful season 2018/19.
Markus Weinzierl works only on probation
Approximately 35 million euros, the now dismissed Michael Reschke was, therefore, in the summer. Alone, 17.5 million euros for Pablo Maffeo (nine million) and Borna Sosa (eight and a half million). Both come together so far in 16 appearances in the Bundesliga. As a result of such false purchases, as it is at the VfB, therefore, currently not only the Sports, although with the home game against Hannover 96 this Sunday (15.30 clock/Sky) a hugely important match in the fight for the Class whereabouts is pending. It is much more the big question: What is VfB?
Markus Weinzierl works in any case on probation, the game against Hannover might be the last of his Stuttgart tenure. In the previous 16 Games, the Team sought to 0.65 points per game, a catastrophic value. Hitzlsperger avoided on Thursday, a clear Statement to the Trainer, attested to, at least, a “good tendency”. At the 1:3 against Leipzig two weeks ago, the VfB played well for a long time in Bremen, the Team won a point. It’s the little things, to which you cling in Stuttgart currently are.
His last game? Markus Weinzierl is under constant pressure.Photo: Herbert Rudel/Imago
Against Hannover must win of VfB. “We need to deliver. This is the task,“ said Weinzierl on Friday. He, too, is based on the widespread positive impressions of the last two games: “Hanover has, with all due respect, not the quality of Leipzig. If we can get the same performance like the one against RB or like in Bremen, then we have all the chances to win.“
But at the VfB, there are even more sites: about the search for the Director of sport of VfB has not for three and a half years. “I’m looking for a sports Director, has provided proof, to be able to squad plan. That is also the squad and tells how you can give him a new structure,“ says Hitzlsperger. The 36-Year-old stressed that he was “amazed at how many competent people have contacted me who are interested in VfB”. The search will still take a couple of weeks, the new man will be presented in the ideal case, before the end of the season.
personnel Wolfgang Dietrich splits the club and Fans
The biggest source of friction between club and Fans there are currently, but in the person of Wolfgang Dietrich. The President of the VfB is in the criticism, because he had driven to the outsourcing of the club in a capital society. In addition, he is accused of having a too large interference to the operational business. The dismissal of Jan shingle Meiser, the former sports Executive Board, which reasoned Dietrich barely had the backing of the President, the Fans are dwindling.
The supporters protested in front of the last home game against Leipzig again loudly, went with a Banner with the inscription “Stuttgart fight. Dietrich out“ to the stadium. “VfB Stuttgart, we are,” chanted the Fans. In the stadium they showed banners with the inscriptions: “Dietrich: You’ve created an excellent framework, for a third Time to descend”. Or: “How many pawns does it take until the sun king finally goes?” A nod to the dismissal of the sports Board Michael Reschke.
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in the Midst of all these discussions and questions is Thomas Hitzlsperger. His appeal to the new sports Board was taken in Stuttgart, benevolent. Also because of the clear statements of the former national players. The VfB against Hannover should win or even lose, he would have to leave these words also deeds. Then you could queue for Hitzlsperger him the first coach dismissal.
