Jörg Schmadtke speaks plain text to the crisis at VfL Wolfsburg

Jörg Schmidt (born March 16, 1964, in Dusseldorf-Eller) is a former German football goalkeeper as well as coach as well as today's official. He has been Managing Director of VFL Wolfsburg since June 1, 2018.

The VFL Wolfsburg is located in it's probably the most difficult phase, since Jörg Schmidt has taken over the rudder in the summer of 2018. The manager keeps his head towards what's going on this season and is protecting himself in front of his coach Florian Krefeld. In IDF, Schmidt talked about...

... the current situation after five mandatory defeats in a row: At the moment there is a difficult phase that leaves traces. We are currently unable to implement things as we imagine, explains Schmidt. For the reasons for the misery, the manager remains in approximate. There are reasons for that, the question is always how many of these reasons take you to the public. Only so briefly indicated: We have three years extremely performed with the final result that we have become fourth and qualified for the Champions League have. And then tried to go the next step in our development. And that's missing, you can not talk about it.

... the squad: The current crash surprised insofar as the VFL could hold his success team in the summer and even invested heavily in newcomers and potential regular players such as Sebastian Barnaul, Lukas Mecca or Luca Goldschmidt. If you look at such a squad, then you can say the squad is well put together, which is multi-layered, better than last year, says Schmidt. Nevertheless, it goes downwards. Seven defeats, that's too much for our squad. In addition, there was the alternate error in the DFB Cup, against Lille (1: 3) now followed the international end. We are excreted on Wednesday with a disappointing performance, says Schmidt, we have to plug in criticism, that's fine. Nevertheless, it does not help to talk everything in rubble and ash now. Too many discussions in public are not Well, but we have to admit a few things. We have to clarify a few things internally. What he says concretely makes Schmidt open.

Florian Krefeld currently has to pay things that he has not to answer for.

Jörg Schmidt

... His responsibility: Of course that is also a planning error, does fizzle fuzz without re-encryption. The decision to go the next step in the summer with Mark van Rommel on the coach bank, proved to be wrong quickly. We tried to bring things forward, that did not work, that's why we made a change of coaching.

... the way to turnaround: The VFL is in negative sail, the relegation place is only four points away. We have to work on to find a base back to find a piece of far ground under the feet, calls for Schmidt, to start again, to bring normality into our processes.

... his coach Florian Krefeld: Whether the new coach must be worried about his job, the manager answered with a clear no. If now 20 defeats come in a bit, he will not be to be kept, he also knows himself, sketched Schmidt, but once again makes it clear that he no coach discussion allocate. Because: Florian Krefeld currently has to pay things that he has not to answer for. At the end of October, the 39-year-old took over four defeats in a row, then won three times in his first week, currently five bankruptcies summon one behind the other. However, the coach has hardly exercised with his new team. He had a normal training week, explains Schmidt. You can also register that. Otherwise, we have regenerated or prepared for the game. To push the coach the defeats in the shoes is a bit cheap in my eyes. Clearly the boss says: Florian is not responsible for what's just happening. And Schmidt is optimistic about the upcoming weeks and months with Krefeld: We'll come out with him, because he realizes things clearly, he realizes them clearly, and because we, if we have the time we have, to be changed.