Wolfsburg is apparently about to present a new trainer. According to corresponding reports, VfL is in intensive negotiations with a Dutch.
Dutch coach Paul Simonis is apparently about an agreement with Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg. This is reported by the Dutch edition of the ESPN sports portal and the daily newspaper “de Telegraaf”.
The German transfer insider Florian Plettenberg reports similarly. According to the Sky journalist, the 40-year-old Simonis was the “number one candidate” by Wolfsburg that an agreement with the Dutch-despite positive talks-was not yet achieved.
There is obviously also missing an agreement between VfL and Simonis’ current club, the Go Ahead Eagles Deventer. According to “de Telegraaf” and Plettenberg, however, a meeting was scheduled between the two clubs on Tuesday, in which alternating modalities are to be discussed.
Since Simonis still has a contract in the Dutch first division club until 2027, a transfer fee would probably be necessary. Simonis led Deventer to the seventh place in the eredivisia. With a 5: 3 after penalty shootout, he also won the Dutch trophy with the Go Ahead Eagles. Before that, he was active as an assistant coach in Heerenveen and Deventer as well as as a youth coach at Sparta Rotterdam.
At VfL, Simonis would follow in the footsteps of interim coach Daniel Bauer, who had looked after the “Wolves” for two games at the end of the 2024/25 season. Previously, the Austrian Ralph Hasenhüttl had been released in the VW city on May 4 after just over a year.