New Gladbach trio around Kleindienst
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Borussia Mönchengladbach’s sports director Roland Virkus has justified the lack of summer transfers for the defensive area with economic constraints. “We also saw that we had to do something defensively. We made advance payments when it came to Tim Kleindienst, Kevin Stöger and Philipp Sander. In addition to the sport, which I am responsible for, it is my job as one of the club’s managing directors to at least take care of financial matters. It’s also about consolidating the club,” said the 57-year-old in a “Sky” interview.
“We would have liked to have done something, but we are in a phase where we want to create a healthy financial basis for the club again. We would have liked that, but it didn’t work. You have to accept that as well. We do that too. “We also trust the guys we explained in the positions,” said Virkus. In the summer, the foals spent 8 million euros on transfers for the trio Kleindienst (29, Heidenheim), Sander (26, Kiel) and Stöger (31, Bochum), in return the Bundesliga club took 300,000 euros for the sale of Jonas Kersken (24 , Bielefeld). In addition, Manu Koné (23) was handed over to Roma on loan with an obligation to buy, which will be active in the summer of 2025 and will bring 18 million euros into the foals’ coffers.
Borussia Mönchengladbach’s Virkus denies ultimatum for coach Seoane
Before the 7th matchday – Kleindienst’s former club Heidenheim is waiting at Borussia Park as the next opponent (Saturday, 3:30 p.m.) – Gladbach is only in 14th place, as in the previous season. That’s why “Bild” recently reported on three alleged ones Finals for coach Gerardo Seoane against FCH, in Mainz (October 25th) and against Bremen (November 3rd). But manager Virkus doesn’t want to know anything about it.
“There is no ultimatum for the coach. We cannot influence the things that are brought in from outside,” said Virkus. “We have to focus on the things we can influence: preparing ourselves as best we can for this game. This is important. Our goal for the season is to finish in the single digits in the table. We have to catch up now and score points. That is the goal against Heidenheim, but also in the next games.”
In any case, the points average does not speak in favor of the Swiss Seoane: 1.16 points per game were last undercut by Michael Frontzeck between July 2009 and February 2011 (1.05 PPS). “The fact is, the bottom line is that the performance in Augsburg wasn’t good. But to question the overall development because of this game is going too far for me given the improvements mentioned,” emphasized Virkus in a recent interview on the club website. Offensive player Robin Hack (26), who extended early on Thursday by two years until 2029, recently said in a Transfermarkt interview: “This club has ambitions and we want to get there again, even if it is a long way away. We’re looking up, that’s the goal. We want to move towards a single-digit position in the table as quickly as possible.”
