Daniel Bauer

Right Midfielder - VfL Wolfsburg U18
7 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Bauer

33 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Daniel Bauer out for 26 days

26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. VfL Wolfsburg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Home is on Moussa Doumbia's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; VfL Wolfsburg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

No hiding place for Cedric Teuchert

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cedric Teuchert, and the manager let it.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Christian Eriksen

10 goals and a season average of 7.28 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match

Serhou Guirassy sends VfL Wolfsburg past Mainz 05

It finished 1‑0, and it was Serhou Guirassy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to VfL Wolfsburg.

Player ratings

One of those days for Serhou Guirassy

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Tim Lemperle has had enough of the noise

The ambition story running backwards, and the one nobody tells: a footballer who wants a smaller ground, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is rarely reported as anything else.

The dugout

Moussa Doumbia left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Moussa Doumbia will call it something else in private.

The dugout

Marco Keller: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

Back issues
32 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Daniel Bauer out for 34 days

34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. VfL Wolfsburg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Maximilian Arnold: 17 seasons and counting

425 appearances across 17 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and VfL Wolfsburg know exactly what they have.

Player ratings

Vintage Christian Eriksen — 8.23

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.23, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Timon Wellenreuther has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether VfL Wolfsburg can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Christian Eriksen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christian Eriksen commits to VfL Wolfsburg for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at VfL Wolfsburg

Muhammed Damar 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Muhammed Damar

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Serhou Guirassy the difference as VfL Wolfsburg beat St. Pauli

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Serhou Guirassy. 2‑0 against St. Pauli, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match

The drought breaks for VfL Wolfsburg

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and St. Pauli were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

In brief

31 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Daniel Bauer out for 43 days

43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. VfL Wolfsburg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Maximilian Arnold: 17 seasons and counting

424 appearances across 17 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and VfL Wolfsburg know exactly what they have.

Match

The wait goes on for VfL Wolfsburg

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Anton Stach raises the bar for VfL Wolfsburg

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at VfL Wolfsburg heard it as anything else.

Squad

Maximilian Arnold falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Vini Souza wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and VfL Wolfsburg know it.

Market

Philipp Köhler steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Philipp Köhler 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.

Market

One of our own: Marc Jäger joins the VfL Wolfsburg first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marc Jäger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

VfL Wolfsburg promote Alexander Engel from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Engel has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief