Despite VfB’s threatening situation, Stuttgart’s CEO Alexander Wehrle has no understanding for questions such as “how long we will continue to work with Bruno Labbadia. We have very good individual players. Now it’s a matter of making a team out of them. Bruno is on a really good path Gone,” said the VfB boss about his trainer at “Sky”.
VfB have picked up just two meager points in five games under Labbadia in the Bundesliga and are in a relegation zone. Of course, according to Wehrle, he knows “that the results don’t match. Nevertheless, in the end it’s too short-sighted to just look at the result.”
You have to look at the games “as a whole. There are good approaches, the team acts as a team and is very stable defensively. But it doesn’t reward itself.” But he was “firmly convinced,” emphasized Wehrle, “that we will force the momentum and score the points.” On Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky) VfB Wehrle’s former club 1. FC Köln welcomes them.
VfB also has some problems financially. Wehrle had recently described a descent as threatening the existence of the club. Therefore, the five-time German champion must “strengthen the equity situation. We are in talks with interested parties who want to acquire shares in VfB. Participation rights are also an instrument so that we can get more substance in terms of sporting competitiveness, so that we don’t lose several top performers every year We have to get there again,” said the Stuttgart CEO.