It’s always said that Stuttgart can’t make big leaps despite transfer proceeds. How can that be? As an outsider, may I ask what they actually do with all the money?
That would have to be around +- 150 million / transfer proceeds over the last 3-4 years. Minus own purchases, that would still have to be around 100 million profits.
If you compare that with competitors such as Cologne, Bremen, etc., those are huge sums. In terms of sport, you are not much better off.. It is somehow difficult to understand as an outsider..
That’s how it feels in Swabia. Go to an inn, they’ll whine how difficult everything is and how expensive it is.
If you then ask him why he doesn’t hand it over to you and redeems himself, he’ll definitely mean “can’t do it, it’s his heart”.
I think there is a lot of calculation involved.
But overall, the VFB probably still has significant debts wg. Relegation, Corona and the stadium, there has been more than one conflict in the club in the short history.
What worries me more about Suttgart: In the past (similar to FCB) there were sometimes really good players coming out of the youth team. What happened to the excellent youth work?
There should be a real cracker there.
How can it be that Barca has one top talent after the other, in France or in England the top talents seem to grow on trees and in the former top young talent forges in the south almost nobody comes out?
It’s not that long ago that the young guns from Stuttgart shook up the Bundesliga.
Even with 150 million in debt – bring out a top player who makes it to the top and half is paid.
There are several reasons. Kimmich would have been one of those, but left too soon. Then you missed out on developing and rested on your laurels. A lot has happened in the last 4 years, in particular the name Krücken stood for a change, but the results also take time. There are currently several exciting talents in the starting blocks, the names Ulrich and Seimen are at least worth remembering. But Di Benedetto, Paula or Laupheimer are also on the watch list for some. Some strong youth players had great advance praise, but were then plagued by injuries, for example (Suver, Meyer).
In addition, in the past few years, other strong teams in the south, Freiburg and Hoffenheim, have been working on the talent pool, and there is domestic competition in the form of Heidenheim and other teams from the lower leagues.
About whining: it’s actually rather rare in everyday life that people really whine (at least I don’t notice it that much). More typical is the bleating, too Swabian: bubbling. You see yourself as a hard and honest working person and if it doesn’t work out it’s the others who are too stupid for their job
It’s different at VfB: through tradition, an environment made up of former players and officials who all think they have drunk the wisdom straight out of the soup pot, you have created an environment that can at best be described as a swamp. Structurally and sustainably making progress there is not particularly promising because there are always established and often powerful structures that want to hold back.