Sparta tries to avert crisis in management | Football

sport">Both directors have been arguing about the course Sparta should take for some time. The wary Laros kept his hand on the purse strings last summer after the lucrative sale of Abdou Harroui and Laros Duarte. Due to the lack of investments, Sparta, which finished eighth last season and thus set the best classification since 1996, is experiencing a sporty difficult season. Sparta is currently sixteenth in the Eredivisie.

sport">After the sale of Maduka Okoye to Watford, Van Stee angered the general manager by talking in an interview about the amount for which the goalkeeper was sold. As a result, mutual relations deteriorated further, culminating in the crisis at the beginning of this week.

sport">Van Stee has been working as technical director at Sparta for 3.5 years and can look back on a successful period. Sparta was not only able to promote during his technical directorship and under the leadership of the trainer Henk Fraser appointed by him and to maintain itself two seasons in a row, with last season the best ranking in a quarter of a century. But in addition, Van Stee managed to sell more than 15 million euros to players in the same period, thus keeping Sparta afloat financially. Van Stee has a strong relationship with trainer Fraser and he has indicated that he is thinking about his position if Van Stee were to leave the club.

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