The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $53.1M for Mile Svilar
VfB Stuttgart have gone to AS Roma with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
VfB Stuttgart say no — this time
The offer from Bayern Munich for Bilal El Khannouss 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 targets17 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim tell VfB Stuttgart: Albian Hajdari 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Heidenheim watching Dan-Axel Zagadou
The interest is real enough to have reached print. VfB Stuttgart have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Deniz Undav question follows VfB Stuttgart around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Deniz Undav’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marcel Fuchs, 21, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where VfB Stuttgart would like this to lead.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nikolas Nartey wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and VfB Stuttgart have no good answer.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
David Müller knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Müller trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pascal Stenzel goes out on loan
The minutes were not coming at VfB Stuttgart, so he will look for them at Borussia Dortmund. Everybody involved calls it development; for the player it is simply a chance to play.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Maximilian Mittelstädt
- Squad Good reports on Maximilian Mittelstädt
- Squad Frank Horn back in training