Wim Kieft is very curious how Mark van Bommel will perform as trainer of VfL Wolfsburg. The Bundesliga club has still not announced the arrival of the coach to the world, but it is no longer a secret that he has signed a two-year contract and takes over the duties of Oliver Glasner, who has left for Eintracht Frankfurt. Kieft is curious how Wolfsburg ended up at Van Bommel.
“It must have been his good reputation as a player in Germany or a feat of his manager Mino Raiola, because Van Bommel’s performance as a trainer of PSV did not give him this job,” Kieft emphasizes in his column on Saturday. The Telegraph. “After a good first six months, everything in Eindhoven completely collapsed. Van Bommel has not won a prize in a season and a half at PSV. ”
“He will have to prove himself at Wolfsburg, otherwise it will end as a trainer’s career.” Van Bommel was promoted at PSV from the Under 19 to the first team in mid-2018, after the sudden departure of Phillip Cocu to Fenerbahçe. In its first season, PSV had to leave the national title to Ajax, despite a sublime first half of the season. Van Bommel also started his second season well, but a dramatic series led to his dismissal in mid-December 2019. Later stories came out of a difficult working relationship with some employees and he also acknowledged that he had made it too difficult for himself.
Van Bommel has long been mentioned as the most important candidate for the succession of Glasner. Despite the good performances, a fourth place in the past season, the relationship between the Austrian and the club management had cooled, after public criticism from the trainer about the transfer policy. At Wolfsburg, Van Bommel receives assistance from his former teammate Kevin Hofland, who had to leave the field at Fortuna Sittard. Vincent Heilmann and video analyst Alex Abresch come over from PSV.