Major setback! VfB key player ruled out for months

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VfB Stuttgart will have to do without their new first-choice goalkeeper Dennis Seimen at the start of the season, but according to Sky Sport are not planning a replacement signing for the time being.

The 20-year-old goalkeeper suffered a thigh muscle injury in training on Tuesday and will be out for Stuttgart at least until the international break in September. Attacker Justin Diehl also picked up an injury to the front of his thigh. He is out as well.

"These are definitely bad news because it can already be said now that Dennis and Justin will not be available for the first phase of the season," said Stuttgart sporting director Fabian Wohlgemuth, expressing concern over the injury setbacks.

Seimen's absence hits particularly hard because Stuttgart had firmly planned for him in this key position. After the departure of Alexander Nübel to Besiktas, Seimen, who last season still played a major role in SC Paderborn 07's promotion to the Bundesliga, was supposed to go into the campaign as the new number one.

"Our squad planning in the goalkeeping position for the coming season was, as is well known, largely complete. Even without Dennis, we have a lot of quality in our goalkeeping group, but we still have to discuss over the coming days whether we will become active in the transfer market again," Wohlgemuth continued.