With FFP and other financial restrictions in place, football finance is all about doing great deals these days and for VfB Stuttgart, the one to sign Konstantinos Mavropanos from Arsenal looks like an extremely smart one.
Wolfsburger Allgemeine Aller-Zeitung cover the player today and how he is set for a €15m move to Wolfsburg in the summer transfer window.
The newspaper explains that Wolfsburg have ‘found what they are looking for’ in the form of Mavropanos.
They have ‘set their sights’ on the former Arsenal man, who only joined Stuttgart on a permanent basis in the summer for €3.2m following a two-year loan spell at the German club between 2020 and 2022.
According to WAZ’s information, Wolfsburg are ‘very interested’ in the Greek centre-back, who has a market value of around €15m.
He does not have an exit clause in his contract but Stuttgart would be forced to sell if they are relegated from the Bundesliga and that figure would be seen as a ‘very good rate’ to sell at.
It would also represent a major profit on the player they got from Arsenal last summer, with that figure almost five times what they paid to get him out of the Emirates permanently.
That’s good business for a club as financially unstable as the German side whatever way you look at it, although we’re sure Arsenal may be feeling a little aggrieved they didn’t negotiate a little harder last summer.
