The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at VfB Stuttgart
Atakan Karazor was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Chris Führich
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart get the job done against Mainz 05
A 1‑0 win over Mainz 05, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Raúl García did the work nobody counts — 6.52
11 combined actions and 6.52. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Deniz Undav
A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Fabian Bredlow dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market31 Aug 2026
The shop window has Fabian Bredlow in it
VfB Stuttgart have let the market know Fabian Bredlow can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Deniz Undav is off the mark for VfB Stuttgart
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Ermedin Demirović
Nobody at VfB Stuttgart is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- Player ratings Angelo Stiller spends the afternoon fouling
- Market The Chema Andrés story refuses to die