Consolation back to the SCP?
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After the expulsion of Marinko Jurendic at the end of May, FC Augsburg identified his desired candidate for the office of sports directors. Benjamin Weber is to switch to Fuggerstadt from SC Paderborn 07, where he has been working as a managing director of Sport since January 2023. Reports about an agreement between the 42-year-old and the FCA can confirm the transfer market. Now it is all about the fact that the federal and second division team agree on the change of Weber.
According to the “Augsburger Allgemeine”, Augsburg hopes to be able to announce the appointment of Webers before the start of training on July 7th. The clubs are reportedly agreed that the talks should come to an end when Paderborn has found a new sports director. As “Sky” reports, this could be Robin Trost from VfB Stuttgart.
The 30-year-old, who has been head of the Swabian license area since the beginning of the year, knows the SCP very well. From 2015 to the end of 2024 he worked at the East Westphalia in various positions, including in the first half of 2024/25 as a sporting director. From 2020 he was the leading assistant of the sports manager for four years, initially under today’s VfB sports director Fabian Wohlgemuth and then under Weber.
Augsburg candidate Weber with a good transfer record in Paderborn
Under the direction of Thomas Tuchel’s long-time assistant coach, who had already worked with Christian Heidel in Mainz, Paderborn achieved sixth, seven and most recently four. With sales such as Julian Justvan (2023 to Hoffenheim), Ron Schallenberg (2023 on Schalke) or finally Ilyas (Union Berlin), who brings the internal record revenue of 4 million euros, Weber took over 11 million euros from summer 2023. At the same time, he signed new players for around 2.6 million euros without the squad being weaker.
“We are very far below in comparison,” Weber said in March in the transfer market interview. “The higher this budget, the higher we can establish ourselves in midfield and maybe at some point financially in the upper third, the greater our goals. It is that we are at the absolute attack as far as our performance is concerned. (…) Of course we are very proud of what we are currently delivering. But we are also aware that we not only have to develop in the sporting area, but at all levels of the club.”