When looking for a sports director, VfB Stuttgart also thinks of Chatzialexiou from the DFB

I would also like to know what qualifies him. The post is located at the interface between Wehrle and Wohlgemuth. So his job would be to determine the overall sporting strategy of the club (eV as well as AG) in the long term, and especially from a financial perspective. This has little to do with association work. Sounds suspiciously like “he has done something with top football before and knows a few people here”.

If I had to define the perfect organizational structure, it would have been there in Dortmund a few years ago: Rauball – Watzke – Zorc – Klopp. Everyone knew what to do then. 4 levels also make sense: purely organizational/representative – more organizational/financial – more athletic/financial – purely athletic. There are no lazy middle things.

At VfB, this is seen with Vogt (who is somehow not to blame for anything), Wehrle (who wants to get involved everywhere, but can actually do little apart from acquiring sponsors), Wohlgemuth (who has a modest idea of ​​​​squad planning, but is not a financial expert and also does not have a large network seems to have) and the respective trainer quite diffusely. Where is the added value of the now fifth in the league, the sports director, if he is not a fox in negotiations like Watzke? I’m slowly getting tired of hearing all this talk about networking between professionals and the youth department, that would be Adrion’s business, if at all, supported by Lahm.