In the summer of 2022, Eriksen hired Manchester United. He played for the “Red Devils” for three years. Now he is moving to the Bundesliga for the first time, to a team that reflects a bit of home for him.
“The fact that numerous faces known to me from the Danish national team are particularly attractive to VfL for me,” Eriksen is quoted in the Wolfsburg club announcement. In fact, the German champion from 2009 has an astonishingly high number of players from the Scandinavian neighboring country in its ranks. In addition to Eriksen, this are five more professionals with Joakim Mæhle, Jesper Lindstrøm, Adam Daghim, Jonas Wind and Andreas Skov Olsen. In addition, the managing director of Sport, Peter Christiansen, is also a Dane.
With his compatriots, Eriksen will now try to lift VfL back into European business. The last time the “Wolves” played in the Champions League in 2021, flew out in the group phase at the time. The past few years have been no less sobering for the ambitious VW club in the Bundesliga. The placements in the recent four seasons: eleven, twelve, eight and twelve.
VfL started the new season very promising under his new coach Paul Simonis. The 3-1 opening success in Heidenheim was followed by a 1-1 draw against Mainz 05. With a home win on Saturday against 1. FC Köln (from 3:30 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online), the team could gild the decent start into the season. A project, with the success of which top transfer Christian Eriksen should help for the first time.