VfL Wolfsburg: Coach Niko Kovac wants more experience for more success

Second youngest squad in the league

After VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg has the second youngest squad in the league, together with BVB and 1. FC Köln, with an average age of 24.4 years. If “Wolfe” coach Niko Kovac has his way, the Lower Saxony may well fall further back in this ranking in the future – more experience increases the chances of sporting success, the 51-year-old indicated. In order to be able to successfully resolve this equation in the future, the coach calls for a corresponding transfer strategy for the coming summer.

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“Young games have ups and downs. You don’t see that as much with more experienced players because the waves are smaller. There are many statistics about which teams are successful by age average. Those who are very young in the top five leagues are relatively rarely in the top four,” Kovac said.table footballquoted. This is the desired placement for Table-7. the Bundesliga should be, the self-confident Croatian had already announced several times in the past. VfL, who started the new year successfully with two clear victories, had only managed to collect one point from the past four games. The short-term goal was initially to defend the current position – “we’re not ready for more,” said Kovac.

For this you have to “put together a good team in the summer. We have to keep growing”, the coach formulated his goals. In order to be able to play a bigger role again in the fight for international business and on the European stage, Kovac called for the transfer strategy to be adjusted and a bit of a departure from the philosophy of hiring or training young players and then selling them with added value .

Wolfsburg coach Kovac: “Difficult to find all the diamonds”

“It’s difficult to find all the diamonds in the market, buy them for 5 million and sell them for 50 million. If you want to play at the top, you have to spend more money,” the coach told the magazine, adding: “We have to try to develop the players, but also try to bring quality to Wolfsburg during the transition periods. If you’re just trying to develop players, it takes time. And time is very limited.”

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