VfB trainer Sauer via Woltemade change
“Situation exacerbates”: Hoeneß all -round
Updated on 29.08.2025 – 3:10 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
What’s next at VfB Stuttgart? The departure of Nick Woltemade does not ensure jubilation for everyone.
Trainer Sebastian Hoeneß from VfB Stuttgart reacted to the sale of Nick Woltemade with disappointment and only laboriously hidden anger towards his superiors. The attacker will switch to the English Premier League for a transfer of up to 90 million euros to Newcastle United.
“The fact is that it is a bitter loss for us,” said Hoeneß against Borussia Mönchengladbach before the start of the home on Saturday. At the same time, he warned reinforcements for his team from the responsible persons before the transfer on Monday.
“We made a few things in the summer of last year that we wanted to implement. And I have to say very clearly that, even before the Nick has been transferred, it was not quite possible to implement these things,” said Hoeneß – a clear criticism of club boss Alexander Wehrle and sports director Fabian Wohlguth.
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Due to the departure of Woltemade, the situation “has now tightened a little,” said the sample, but recognizable, which was triumphant, said Hoeneß on Friday at the obligatory media round. The squad is currently not there “how you have planned”.
It is now a matter of warning Hoeneß to get good players with good quality in the remaining three days who have already experienced something who have already played at a high level in order to get into the team immediately and to have an effect “.
Woltemade, he emphasized, “played a central role” in his planning. He would have been in the starting eleven against Mönchengladbach, said Hoeneß. He can also react for this “one game” – after that he expects the squad to be strengthened.
Hoeneß could not appease the fact that VfB is taking up to 90 million euros for Woltemade. “Of course there is a financial situation,” he said, it was also “normal” that a “area of tension” was created. “But sporting responsibility lies with the trainer.”