The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ramon Hendriks damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart bid $57.9M for Dominic Calvert-Lewin
The offer went to Leeds United this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Jonathan Burkardt
VfB Stuttgart asked and Eintracht Frankfurt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart say no — this time
The offer from Borussia Mönchengladbach for Angelo Stiller was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart make their move for Lennart Karl
$11.0M on the table at Bayern Munich. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maximilian Mittelstädt raises the bar for VfB Stuttgart
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at VfB Stuttgart heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Maximilian Mittelstädt signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maximilian Mittelstädt commits to VfB Stuttgart for another 5 years.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart go back to the board over Lennart Karl
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $11.4M — a club that wants Lennart Karl enough to be asked twice.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf join the queue for Ameen Al-Dakhil
Add another name to the list: Fortuna Düsseldorf have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ameen Al-Dakhil. The answer from VfB Stuttgart has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Peter Baumann joins the VfB Stuttgart first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ramon Hendriks
- The dugout Maximilian Mittelstädt knocks on the manager’s door