The VfL Wolfsburg chapter is over, Max Kruse and the Bundesliga soccer team are terminating their contract. The striker can thus look for a new employer after his suspension. He'll probably be based in the US.
Chicago? New York? Or maybe Miami? In any case, Max Kruse's way to the USA is now clear. The 34-year-old and VfL Wolfsburg ended their misunderstanding after a few quarrels and "mutually agreed to an immediate termination of the contract," as the factory club announced. This means that Kruse can look for a new club, Major League Soccer seems to be the most likely option for the flamboyant attacker.
Kruse only moved from Union Berlin to Wolfsburg at the end of January and explained the move at the time, among other things, with his better salary ("long-term and highly paid") in Wolfsburg. Under the new Wolves trainer Niko Kovac, Kruse no longer played a sporting role, according to information from the Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, his farewell should be sweetened with a severance payment of one million euros. His contract would have expired in the summer.
"In open and honest discussions, we agreed that this solution is best for everyone involved," said sports director Marcel Schäfer about the separation: "We wish Max all the best on his future path."
From the goal guarantor from the previous year to the bench press this season: Kruse's farewell was indicated. At the beginning of September Kovac banned him from the professional team, it just didn't fit between the discipline fanatic and the idiosyncratic Kruse, who is not exactly known as a training world champion. "We demand 100% identification and concentration from every player with a focus on VfL - we didn't have that feeling with Max," said Kovac at the time.
Since then, Kruse has made headlines, especially with his social media activities, he also won 134,152 euros in a poker tournament and engaged in a verbal skirmish with Wolfsburg captain Maximilian Arnold. "I think it's clear that it wasn't an easy time for me either," said Kruse recently. Everything has its reasons, at some point he will comment on it.
For Kruse, his second term in Wolfsburg ends prematurely, after all, he stayed a year in the 2015/16 season. On his return, he said that Wolfsburg is a club "where I still have a chapter open that I can now finish". But now Kruse is gone again. You won't cry for him. "We got him last winter. He helped us. That was good. It's over now," said Managing Director Jörg Schmadtke.
