Marcel Schäfer was at VfL Wolfsburg for more than 15 years – first a player, then sports director and managing director. Now the surprising separation takes place. Is there another club behind it?
Bundesliga soccer club VfL Wolfsburg has separated from its sports director Marcel Schäfer with immediate effect. The club announced this. According to consistent media reports from “Kicker” and “Wolfsburger Nachrichten”, the 39-year-old has an offer from Bundesliga rivals RB Leipzig.
Schäfer informed the Wolfsburg supervisory board chairman Frank Witter “about his wish to change and the associated early termination of his existing contract as managing director of sports,” according to the VfL statement. It was then “agreed, in view of all the circumstances, that Marcel Schäfer would suspend his duties with immediate effect.”
Schäfer was a VfL player from 2007 to 2017 and returned as sports director in 2018. On February 1, 2023, he was promoted to managing director as the successor to Jörg Schmadtke. In Leipzig, the managing director position has no longer been filled since the separation from Max Eberl last September. Both clubs meet this Saturday in the Bundesliga.
Source: Stern
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