Differences between Wehrle and Mislintat: VfB Stuttgart is in talks with Horst Heldt
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VfB Stuttgart is considering installing Horst Heldt as the new sporting director. The background is disagreements between the current sports director Sven Mislintat and CEO Alexander Wehrle.
VfB Stuttgart is considering installing Horst Heldt as the new sporting director. The background is disagreements between the current sports director Sven Mislintat and CEO Alexander Wehrle.
A report by sky according to the Swabians had already had initial talks with Heldt. The 52-year-old is said to be Wehrle’s preferred candidate for a possible Mislintat successor. Heldt and Wehrle worked together at 1. FC Köln between 2019 and 2021. In addition, Heldt worked in management at VfB from 2006 to 2010, having previously ended his playing career in Stuttgart.
It is unlikely that Sven Mislintat, whose contract expires in the summer, will stay with the current penultimate table beyond the season. Contract talks between Mislintat and Wehrle were originally planned for mid-November. However, the cooperation between the two responsible persons is so severely disrupted that it is possible that the planned talks about an extension of Mislintat’s working paper will not even take place.
Leadership dispute affects the search for a coach
Most recently, Wehrle single-handedly decided to entrust Sami Khedira and Philipp Lahm with an advisory role and to make Christian Gentner head of the licensed players department. Mislintat was not involved in the proceedings, although they directly affect his area of work.
Especially strong, like that sky, the disturbed internal relationship would currently come to light when looking for a coach. For example, Domenico Tedesco, Zsolt Löw and Sebastian Hoeneß are said to have refrained from an engagement with a view to the leadership dispute in Stuttgart. Discussions were held, but internal coordination problems prevented them from becoming concrete.
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