Official | Wolfsburg on the hunt for new sporting director after sacking Sebastian Schindzielorz | OneFootball

Bundesliga outfit VfL Wolfsburg have opted to continue their administrative housecleaning by sacking sporting director Sebastian Schinzierlorz. The 46-year-old was officially let go by Germany’s green company team on Thursday, four days after the club opted to terminate head coach Paul Simonis. A great deal about Wolfsburg’s planned forward path is now clear.

The precise manner of Wolfsburg’s planned major personnel upheaval has now been determined. Few expected that the firings would stop with Simonis. Until now, it also remained possible that managing director Peter Christiansen would depart the club. It’s now apparent that Christiansen will stay, taking over Schindzielorz’s duties on a temporary basis. 

Kicker and a host of other German footballing media sources confirm that Wolfsburg still wish to install a new sporting director to work beneath Christiansen. The Lower Saxon Autostädter definitely want a classic sporting director to manage the squad in Schindzielorz’s place. 

Who are the replacement candidates?

Kicker claims that Wolfsburg are interested in courting VfB Stuttgart board-member Fabian Wohlgemuth, who worked as a scout and academy director at Wolfsburg before working as an administrator at Holstein Kiel, SC Paderborn 07, and eventually Stuttgart.  It may not appear as if Wohlgemuth would ever be interested in the job, but the 46-year-old (after his Stuttgart promotion) may be interested in working as a sporting director again at his old club.

Kicker also lists former Bayer Leverkusen squad planner and West Ham United technical director Tim Steidten as a potential candidate. Steidten has been unemployed since departing the Hammers in February. Transfermarkt brings the names of prominent currently unemployed German footballing executives such as Sven Mislintat and Jonas Boldt into the conversation, also making (somewhat absurd) claims that Bayern’s Christoph Freund and Dortmund’s Sebastian Kehl might be interested in the job.

GGFN | Peter Weis