Stuttgart's Director of Football is Michael Reshke - aka the guy who convinced Pep to sign Joshua Kimmich and also brought Kingsley Coman to Bayern.
No wonder he was interested in Maffeo for only €10m, hopefully his good personal relationship with Pep made this very smooth and it will turn out to be a similar transfer to Carvajal going to Bayer Leverkusen.
From a development point of view, Germany is a fantastic place to go for a young player, he'll get exposed to a lot of counterattacking and pressing sides with very tactically astute managers. In theory the perfect next step after a few years in Spain but I'm just doubtful we'll be the ones who benefit from it long term.
No wonder he was interested in Maffeo for only €10m, hopefully his good personal relationship with Pep made this very smooth and it will turn out to be a similar transfer to Carvajal going to Bayer Leverkusen.
From a development point of view, Germany is a fantastic place to go for a young player, he'll get exposed to a lot of counterattacking and pressing sides with very tactically astute managers. In theory the perfect next step after a few years in Spain but I'm just doubtful we'll be the ones who benefit from it long term.