The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No deal for Caoimhin Kelleher at that price
VfB Stuttgart offered $45.0M; Brentford said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market10 Aug 2026
SC Freiburg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and VfB Stuttgart did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 tell VfB Stuttgart: Robin Zentner is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marcel Fuchs gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marcel Fuchs has just signed for VfB Stuttgart, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart buy the years ahead of Marcel Fuchs
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market10 Aug 2026
Uwe Meier steps up from the VfB Stuttgart academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Uwe Meier has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Jamie Leweling asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Squad No place for Marcel Fuchs in the new shape
- Squad Deniz Undav wants to know why he earns less