New Arrival with the Red Stripe: Ermedin Demirović

The VfB has signed Augsburg’s cap­tain Erme­din Demi­ro­vić as a suc­ces­sor to record stri­ker Ser­hou Gui­ras­sy, who is on the ver­ge of a trans­fer to Borus­sia Dort­mund. But can he replace him? We took a clo­ser look at Demi­ro­vić.

Actual­ly, the trans­fer was alre­a­dy hin­ted at late last year when VfB trea­ted them­sel­ves to a near­ly flaw­less per­for­mance against FC Augs­burg just befo­re Christ­mas, and their cap­tain, Erme­din Demi­ro­vić, admit­ted on came­ra that he had never been play­ed off the park like that, not even by Bay­ern. As a VfB fan, you are used to hea­ring such prai­se for your team only from oppon­ents who have pre­vious­ly bea­ten us despi­te the good per­for­mance of the Brust­ring wea­rers. Now Demi­ro­vić can play oppon­ents off the park while wea­ring the Brust­ring and this Christ­mas fairy tale beco­mes the club’s big­gest trans­fer invest­ment to date. Some say it’s logi­cal after the sta­tis­ti­cal­ly best sea­son in the club’s histo­ry, while others fear a pos­si­ble sig­ning of Deniz Undav under simi­lar con­di­ti­ons could lead to the drea­ded Cham­pi­ons League trap. The fact that so much money is being moved at VfB in one sum­mer is defi­ni­te­ly new and war­rants clo­ser exami­na­ti­on — and may­be the­re is some­thing bet­ween blind trust in tho­se respon­si­ble and the fear of ano­ther deca­de of “Schei­ße” after the “Rei­se”.

Limited prospects in Hamburg, Leipzig, and Alavés

But first, let’s focus on the play­er Erme­din Demi­ro­vić, who has signed a four-year con­tract with VfB today and is repor­ted­ly ear­ning as much as Gui­ras­sy did recent­ly. Demi­ro­vić was born on March 25, 1998, in Ham­burg, making him 26 years old. He joi­n­ed HSV at six years old, but at 16, they did­n’t belie­ve he had a pro­fes­sio­nal care­er ahead of him, part­ly for phy­si­cal reasons, as he once told the Swiss news­pa­per Tag­blatt. Demi­ro­vić work­ed inde­pendent­ly on his fit­ness, cat­ching the atten­ti­on of Red Bull Leip­zig, who brought him to their youth aca­de­my. In the 2014/2015 sea­son, he play­ed for both the under 17 and under 18, scoring 18 goals in 33 games but fai­ling to win the cham­pi­on­ship with both teams. After scoring nine goals in the fol­lo­wing sea­son for the U19, he debut­ed for the second team in the Regio­nal­li­ga Nord­ost in the 2016/2017 sea­son, scoring direct­ly in his only appearance and net­ting 14 goals again in the A‑Ju­gend-Bun­des­li­ga Nord/Nordost.

His time at the Salz­burg bevera­ge mar­ket sub­si­dia­ry ended in 2017 for two reasons. Accor­ding to the local press, the “RB talent” lacked the speed for the Bun­des­li­ga, and he could­n’t con­ti­nue play­ing for the second team as it was dere­gis­tered. Thus, he moved to the Bas­que Coun­try to Depor­tivo Ala­vés, who dis­co­ver­ed him during a youth inter­na­tio­nal match. Howe­ver, the sea­son did not go well for Demi­ro­vić: as he told Ste­fan Rom­mel in an inter­view with Spox, he had no play­ing eli­gi­bi­li­ty for the first half of the year becau­se the club assu­med, being born in Ham­burg, he had a Ger­man pass­port — which he did not. So he debut­ed only in Janu­ary 2018 in La Liga, and then right at Camp Nou against FC Bar­ce­lo­na with Lio­nel Mes­si. Apart from that one minu­te, he only made two more full appearan­ces, scoring one goal and pro­vi­ding one assist at the end of the sea­son. As noted in a very rea­da­ble inter­view with Max Din­ke­la­ker on 11Freunde.de, it was an emo­tio­nal­ly chal­len­ging year for Demi­ro­vić in his first stint abroad.

Breakthrough at St. Gallen

In the 2018/2019 sea­son, he was loan­ed to the French second-divi­si­on club FC Soch­aux in the first half and to UD Alme­ría in the second Spa­nish divi­si­on in the second half. While he scored four goals in France, he remain­ed unsuc­cessful at his second loan club, retur­ned to Ala­vés, and was loan­ed again to FC St. Gal­len under coach Peter Zeid­ler, who knew him from the Red Bull net­work. Mar­co from the fan­zine SENF told us more about Demirović’s sea­son at FCSG. One could inde­ed call this his breakth­rough: Demi­ro­vić scored dou­ble digits for the first time sin­ce the under 19 — 14 goals and pro­vi­ded seven assists. St. Gal­len tem­po­r­a­ri­ly top­ped the league and finis­hed second behind Young Boys Bern under coach Gerar­do Seo­ane. Demi­ro­vić deci­ded the game at Ser­vet­te Gen­e­va with two goals alo­ne:

He also scored a brace against FC Sion. Given his unsuc­cessful loans and rela­ti­ve obscu­ri­ty, Mar­co said the­re were no high expec­ta­ti­ons of him as an imme­dia­te help. Howe­ver, Demi­ro­vić inte­gra­ted well into the team, brin­ging lea­der­ship qua­li­ties on and off the field. The team, which included Leo­ni­das Ster­giou, was “a real­ly cool bunch,” and Demi­ro­vić har­mo­ni­zed well with his strike part­ners Ced­ric Itten (20 goals) and Boris Babic (seven goals). After a year, Demi­ro­vić retur­ned to Ger­ma­ny, to SC Frei­burg. The trans­fer fee of near­ly four mil­li­on euros went to his loan club Ala­vés and not to St. Gal­len, which Demi­ro­vić reg­ret­ted in the inter­view with 11Freunde.

First momentum, then tragedy

Frei­burg had been pur­suing him even befo­re his trans­fer in August during the Coro­na break, as repor­ted in inter­views. Patrick from the Spod­cast Frei­burg explai­ned that Demi­ro­vić was plan­ned as a pro­s­pec­ti­ve suc­ces­sor to Nils Peter­sen. Through his year in St. Gal­len, he had made a name for hims­elf. SCF finis­hed the 2020/2021 sea­son in 10th place, level on points with pro­mo­ted VfB. Demi­ro­vić scored five goals and pro­vi­ded ten assists, both in Janu­ary 2021 in the home game against VfB, when he equa­li­zed Silas’s lead in the 14th minu­te and then assis­ted Jeong Woo-yeong’s goal — one of the more dis­ap­poin­ting games of the still-good VfB sea­son from today’s per­spec­ti­ve. The start was bum­py for him, said Patrick — he sat on the bench for 90 minu­tes in the 3–2 away win in the first leg — but Demi­ro­vić gai­ned momen­tum by the end of 2020/2021, coll­ec­ting ten scorer points in Decem­ber and Janu­ary.

The fol­lo­wing sea­son went much bet­ter for Frei­burg, qua­li­fy­ing for Euro­pe as sixth place and rea­ching the cup final, whe­re they lost on pen­al­ties to Demirović’s for­mer club — ulti­m­ate­ly, if not cau­sal­ly, becau­se he hit the cross­bar with his penal­ty (trig­ger war­ning: cele­bra­ting Salz­bur­gers):

Asi­de from this season’s clo­sing chord, Demi­ro­vić was not satis­fied: he scored only twice in the Bun­des­li­ga (in Leip­zig and Dort­mund) and pro­vi­ded three assists (inclu­ding one for Kevin Schade’s goal against VfB). He also had only two sco­rers in the 4–1 cup win in Hof­fen­heim. Patrick attri­bu­ted this per­for­mance drop to a “lack of flow.” Höler and Jeong estab­lished them­sel­ves in a suc­cessful sea­son, and as a joker, Nils Peter­sen usual­ly came on and did well. During his short appearan­ces — Demirović’s play­ing time hal­ved com­pared to the pre­vious sea­son — he see­med very ten­se, try­ing to pro­ve hims­elf, Patrick said. While he deve­lo­ped quick­ly in his first sea­son in Breis­gau, the 2021/2022 sea­son felt like a step back for many fans.

The swap deal

In sum­mer 2022, the­re was a rare trans­fer in the Bun­des­li­ga: SC Frei­burg and FC Augs­burg swap­ped stri­kers. Erme­din Demi­ro­vić went to Bava­ri­an Swa­bia, and Micha­el Gre­go­rit­sch moved to Süd­ba­den. Both had simi­lar num­bers — Demi­ro­vić with seven goals and 13 assists in 61 games for Frei­burg, Gre­go­rit­sch with ten goals and two assists in 49 games for Augs­burg — but the assess­ment of this swap deal dif­fe­red. Patrick explai­ned that Demi­ro­vić was in a dif­fi­cult situa­ti­on after the missed penal­ty and dis­ap­poin­ting sea­son, and Gre­go­rit­sch brought a play­ing ele­ment that SC lacked. At the same time, some fans did­n’t want to give up Demirović’s strengths. In Augs­burg, Gre­go­rit­sch was app­re­cia­ted for kee­ping the club in the league with strong per­for­man­ces the pre­vious sea­son, but Demi­ro­vić had a lot of deve­lo­p­ment poten­ti­al, espe­ci­al­ly given his high scorer rate rela­ti­ve to play­ing time over two sea­sons.

With two years’ distance, the balan­ce is clear on both sides. Patrick descri­bed the swap deal as a win for all four par­ties (play­ers and clubs), which is as rare as the deal its­elf. Frei­burg looks some­what wistful­ly at Demirović’s deve­lo­p­ment — more on that short­ly — but Gre­go­rit­sch inte­gra­ted well in Frei­burg with 17 goals and ten assists over the last two years, iden­ti­fy­ing with the club. FCA fan Amir sees Demi­ro­vić as the bet­ter play­er, alt­hough he finds Gre­go­rit­sch very lika­ble. The trans­fer to VfB and the record fee for FCA made the swap wort­hwhile. Sport­ingly, Demi­ro­vić was “an abso­lu­te hit” with 23 goals and 16 assists.

Close to relegation

When Demi­ro­vić joi­n­ed Augs­burg, Enri­co Maa­ßen repla­ced for­mer VfB coach Mar­kus Wein­zierl. Amir said Maa­ßen lik­ed to actively approach play­ers befo­re trans­fers to con­vin­ce them to join. This see­med to work with Demi­ro­vić. Amir also noted that it pro­ba­b­ly would­n’t have hap­pen­ed under Wein­zierl, as Demi­ro­vić did­n’t fit his sys­tem, whe­re­as Gre­go­rit­sch was a key play­er for him. As we know, it tur­ned out dif­fer­ent­ly, and Demi­ro­vić hel­ped the team nar­row­ly avo­id rele­ga­ti­on with eight goals and six assists — though none against us. The cru­cial fac­tor was our draw against Hof­fen­heim, allo­wing FCA to afford a 0–2 loss at Glad­bach on the last match­day.

For near­ly ten years, Amir explains, the club had not been so clo­se to rele­ga­ti­on. As a VfB fan, one can recall won­de­ring how this FCA mana­ged to stay up. Amir saw some good approa­ches and also cited seve­ral inju­ries as a reason, but the sea­son also had many lows, and many of the new sig­nings in the win­ter had alre­a­dy left the club. Howe­ver, Demi­ro­vić and his strike part­ner Mer­gim Beri­sha play­ed a signi­fi­cant role in the few vic­to­ries, lea­ding with their per­for­mance and men­ta­li­ty. His ver­dict: “Wit­hout the two of them, we cer­tain­ly would have been rele­ga­ted.” Demi­ro­vić also ral­lied the fans during the rele­ga­ti­on batt­le. The past sea­son then ended up being a cal­mer one for the neigh­bors bey­ond the Bava­ri­an sta­te bor­der. After just one win in seven games, the club repla­ced Maa­ßen with Jess Thorup, under whom the team achie­ved a com­for­ta­ble ele­venth place. Demi­ro­vić con­tri­bu­ted not only 15 goals and 10 assists but also led the team onto the field as cap­tain.

Important Role as Captain

For Amir, this was an under­stan­da­ble decis­i­on. Demi­ro­vić had alre­a­dy taken the lead with his men­ta­li­ty during the rele­ga­ti­on batt­le and ful­fil­led this role even with the arm­band on his arm. He was also an abso­lu­te key play­er on the field, scoring cru­cial goals and secu­ring important points for FCA while allo­wing his strike part­ner Phil­ip Tietz to deve­lop. In the end, it was one of the best sea­sons in years, with Thorup achie­ving a lot sin­ce taking office. Even though the team ran out of steam with six defeats in the last seven games, the strong per­for­man­ces throug­hout the sea­son pro­vi­de a foun­da­ti­on to build on, lea­ving him opti­mi­stic about his club’s near future, espe­ci­al­ly with the trans­fer reve­nue.

Demirović’s future now lies in Stutt­gart, a move that few in Augs­burg begrudge him despi­te his role as cap­tain, main­ly becau­se he always beha­ved impec­ca­bly before­hand, accor­ding to Amir. Other ex-cap­ta­ins could cer­tain­ly take a leaf out of his book. Alt­hough he will not imme­dia­te­ly take over the arm­band at VfB as a new­co­mer, all three experts agree that he will not need much time to sett­le in and will quick­ly take on a lea­der­ship role, espe­ci­al­ly sin­ce he is also the cap­tain of the Bos­ni­an natio­nal team, for which he has now play­ed 26 games and, as Mar­co notes, is at the per­fect age for a lea­der­ship role in a team.

The Falling Forward

In this respect, he seems to be a good fit for VfB and can fill a gap in the team’s hier­ar­chy after Anton’s depar­tu­re. But what does he bring bes­i­des the alre­a­dy known stats? All four coa­ches at his last three clubs most­ly deploy­ed their teams in a 4–4‑2 for­ma­ti­on with various mid­field set­ups, some­ti­mes with a dou­ble six or a dia­mond. In St. Gal­len, Demi­ro­vić for­med a strike part­ner­ship with Ced­ric Itten, in Frei­burg he ope­ra­ted main­ly as a tar­get man in a 3–4‑3 or a 4–4‑2 with two insi­de for­wards or ano­ther stri­ker around him, and in Augs­burg, under Maa­ßen, he occa­sio­nal­ly moved out to the left wing, cut­ting insi­de with force, as Amir explains, but play­ed even bet­ter as a cen­tral stri­ker under Thorup.

Nota­b­ly, Demi­ro­vić is not the clas­sic penal­ty box stri­ker who waits upfront for the ball. On the con­tra­ry, in Augs­burg, he often drop­ped behind Tietz, crea­ting space for hims­elf, and in Frei­burg, he could also move out to the wings. Mar­co also high­lights his abili­ty to set up his team­ma­tes and sees him more as a num­ber ten or a second stri­ker. If Undav stays at VfB, Amir sees him more in the cen­ter, as both play­ers have a simi­lar under­stan­ding of the game, and the­re would be a risk of both drop­ping deep. In any case, Demirović’s game bene­fits from having a play­er around him as a sup­pli­er and tar­get. Here, accor­ding to our experts, his strengths come into play.

High Game Intelligence, Inconsistent Efficiency

The­se strengths, bes­i­des the alre­a­dy men­tio­ned men­tal and lea­der­ship qua­li­ties, include his good tech­ni­que, game under­stan­ding, and goal-scoring instinct. Amir explains that Demi­ro­vić can uti­li­ze and read spaces very well, a skill that will be useful in Sebas­ti­an Hoeneß’s sys­tem dri­ven by pre­cise pas­sing. Moreo­ver, Demi­ro­vić brings good pace. The play­ing style might be dif­fe­rent from Augs­burg, but he pos­s­es­ses all the neces­sa­ry abili­ties. With the ball at his feet, he is not easy to dis­pos­sess, Patrick adds. He also prai­ses his game intel­li­gence, tack­ling strength, and abili­ty with both feet. In St. Gal­len, his wea­k­er foot was still one of his few weak­ne­s­ses, as was his hea­ding abili­ty. Both Patrick and Amir also descri­be his still incon­sis­tent effi­ci­en­cy in front of goal. Patrick asso­cia­tes this with con­fi­dence, while Amir recounts that he “care­less­ly squan­de­red some big chan­ces but capi­ta­li­zed on dif­fi­cult ones.” Patrick is also curious to see how his skills with the ball in tight spaces will deve­lop.

With VfB, Demi­ro­vić will play in Euro­pe for the first time, and then direct­ly in the Cham­pi­ons League. All three experts belie­ve he can show­ca­se his per­for­mance the­re, espe­ci­al­ly after his deve­lo­p­ment in recent years, of cour­se, in con­junc­tion with the rest of the team. Amir points to his phy­si­cal play­ing style and good per­for­man­ces against last season’s Ger­man Cham­pi­ons League par­ti­ci­pan­ts. But can he also replace Ser­hou Gui­ras­sy or, if the lat­ter does not return to Stutt­gart, Deniz Undav, as initi­al­ly asked — then, of cour­se, in con­junc­tion with ano­ther stri­ker?

A Different Player

It must be noted that it is dif­fi­cult to replace the stri­ker with the best sea­son per­for­mance in club histo­ry, and even Undav’s 28 scorer points are so fan­ta­stic that they are not easi­ly matched. Howe­ver, Amir belie­ves Demi­ro­vić can impro­ve again in Stutt­gart becau­se he has bet­ter team­ma­tes than at FCA — which is cer­tain­ly a fac­tor for a play­er who does not ope­ra­te as a lone figh­ter. Nobo­dy expects him to repli­ca­te Guirassy’s extra­or­di­na­ry goal-scoring sea­son, as that com­pa­ri­son is almost bound to be lost.

Loo­king at Demirović’s stats com­pared to other offen­si­ve play­ers, they initi­al­ly seem sobering. Here is Demi­ro­vić com­pared to other stri­kers:

and com­pared to offen­si­ve mid­fiel­ders:

Espe­ci­al­ly when loo­king at the gra­phics for Gui­ras­sy (com­pared to stri­kers) and Undav (com­pared to stri­kers and offen­si­ve mid­fiel­ders):

Howe­ver, one should not over­look, as Amir says, the qua­li­ty of team­ma­tes and the team’s suc­cess, and also not for­get that Ser­hou Gui­ras­sy, despi­te his fle­xi­bi­li­ty, is still pri­ma­ri­ly a clas­sic penal­ty box stri­ker who­se main goal is to get the ball to his feet in the box and into the net. Demi­ro­vić is more ver­sa­ti­le but still does not reach Undav’s num­bers com­pared to other play­ers in the same posi­ti­on. Demi­ro­vić shows his strengths more in the tran­si­ti­on play back­ward and in assists. So he still has some cat­ching up to do com­pared to last season’s VfB strike duo. At the same time, with 0.38 goals per shot on tar­get, he sur­pas­sed Deniz Undav (0.35), and his 14 goal-crea­ting actions (the shot lea­ding to the goal and the two ball actions befo­re it accor­ding to fbref.com) are quite respec­ta­ble in a Bun­des­li­ga com­pa­ri­son, espe­ci­al­ly sin­ce most­ly play­ers from top teams are ahead of him in this sta­tis­tic.

The King Transfer?

Demi­ro­vić, nick­na­med “Demi” in Augs­burg and Frei­burg and with an Insta­gram pro­fi­le whe­re he appears quite extro­ver­ted, is thus taking the next step in his care­er with the move to VfB and facing a new chall­enge. Even though, unli­ke other new arri­vals, he comes to VfB from a dif­fe­rent level. One could cer­tain­ly call him the king trans­fer of the cur­rent trans­fer peri­od. VfB, which would have been in a finan­ci­al­ly pre­ca­rious posi­ti­on with a new­ly reno­va­ted sta­di­um if it had been rele­ga­ted to the second divi­si­on a year ago, is now, just one run­ner-up finish and an inves­tor ent­ry later, shat­te­ring its pre­vious trans­fer record of 11 mil­li­on for Nico Gon­za­lez. Was last sea­son the major tur­ning point, and do we now have to think in big­ger dimen­si­ons in Stutt­gart, if we sell three play­ers for at least 60 mil­li­on euros and will com­pe­te with the best on the con­ti­nent next sea­son? Or is someone at the top get­ting too gree­dy?

I must admit, I do not know how much addi­tio­nal liqui­di­ty the peep show at the play­er tun­nel and the new­ly reno­va­ted sta­di­um bring in. The mil­li­ons from Por­sche are sup­po­sed to pri­ma­ri­ly streng­then the equi­ty capi­tal, which of cour­se puts VfB on a broa­der finan­cial basis and faci­li­ta­tes all kinds of nego­tia­ti­ons. Howe­ver, it was also this equi­ty capi­tal that mel­ted away like ice in the sun due to two rele­ga­ti­ons and the pre­ce­ding sport­ing fail­ures in the last deca­de. Becau­se after the Cham­pi­ons League par­ti­ci­pa­ti­ons in 2007/2008 and 2009/2010, money was sunk into play­ers like Cipri­an Mari­ca, Yil­di­ray Bas­türk, Mau­ro Camo­ra­ne­si, and Pavel Pogreb­nyak, resul­ting in the situa­ti­on descri­bed by Ser­dar Tas­çi in the pod­cast inter­view, name­ly that he left VfB to help the club finan­ci­al­ly with his trans­fer fee. Sport­ingly, we could only replace him four years and one rele­ga­ti­on later with Ben­ja­min Pavard.

What is the season goal?

Short­ly after the end of the sea­son, Alex­an­der Wehr­le made the quite sen­si­ble state­ment that the club aims to assem­ble a squad that it can afford even if it does not play inter­na­tio­nal­ly in 2025/2026. The idea is that Euro­pean reve­nues would sup­port cor­re­spon­ding sala­ries, and if the­se reve­nues were to dis­ap­pear, the club would­n’t over­ex­tend its­elf finan­ci­al­ly. This sounds pro­mi­sing in the long term, and the cur­rent deve­lo­p­ment of Demi­ro­vić and Undav does­n’t neces­s­a­ri­ly indi­ca­te a decli­ne in their care­ers. Howe­ver, the com­bi­ned cost of both trans­fers would reach diz­zy­ing heights for us, even if indi­vi­du­al sala­ries were adjus­ted accor­ding to the club’s finan­cial situa­ti­on. The­re is a cer­tain risk invol­ved due to the trans­fer fees alo­ne, and becau­se VfB Stutt­gart is still not finan­ci­al­ly secu­re.

The con­cern is not neces­s­a­ri­ly becau­se Demi­ro­vić or Undav are not trus­ted to con­ti­nue their pre­vious per­for­man­ces. It’s also becau­se the rest of the team must con­ti­nue to per­form at a high level to achie­ve simi­lar suc­cess again. This is by no means gua­ran­teed after a very good sea­son. Recent­ly, I wro­te here that VfB Stutt­gart must use this excep­tio­nal situa­ti­on to con­so­li­da­te finan­ci­al­ly and sport­ingly in the Bun­des­li­ga. Curr­ent­ly, given the poten­ti­al magni­tu­de of the­se trans­fers, it’s not enti­re­ly clear to me what approach the club will take into the new sea­son. Can they serious­ly set the goal of rea­ching the 40-point mark with this level of trans­fer acti­vi­ty, akin to Augsburg’s approach? Or must they aim to play in Euro­pe again in the sea­son after next, to retain play­ers like Undav or Demi­ro­vić and avo­id sel­ling them below their mar­ket value due to lack of sport­ing per­spec­ti­ve?

Everything is different now.

Don’t get me wrong: From a sport­ing per­spec­ti­ve, I’m exci­ted about Demirović’s trans­fer becau­se I belie­ve he will fit well into the team both per­so­nal­ly and ath­le­ti­cal­ly. Howe­ver, with his sig­ning, Fabi­an Wohl­ge­muth also crea­tes inter­nal and exter­nal expec­ta­ti­ons akin to tho­se seen per­haps only during the return of Alex Hleb or the trans­fer of Jon Dahl Tom­asson, expec­ta­ti­ons that might not have exis­ted a shelf lower down for stri­kers with less expe­ri­ence and simi­lar poten­ti­al. 2024 is cer­tain­ly dif­fe­rent from what we’­re used to at VfB Stutt­gart. Let’s hope that this con­ti­nues posi­tively into the coming sea­son, and that “Demi” Ser­hou Gui­ras­sy quick­ly helps us for­get Ange­lo Stil­ler and Wata­ru Endo.

I’ll lea­ve the very nice clo­sing words to Mar­co from SENF, with warm regards to St. Gal­len:

VfB Stutt­gart has acqui­red a gre­at play­er, both in terms of foot­ball and from what I can judge, per­so­nal­ly. Here in St. Gal­len, we’­ve con­tin­ued to fol­low his care­er, and some are even con­side­ring get­ting the Stutt­gart jer­sey with his name on it for the new sea­son. Just that alo­ne shows he’s made a las­ting impres­si­on with us, even as a loan play­er. I hope he per­forms well for you and look for­ward to chan­ting his name after scoring a goal for Stutt­gart 😉

Pic­tu­re: © Sebas­ti­an Widmann/Getty Images

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