The VfL Bochum Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Daniel Heber would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Daniel Heber is living that version at VfL Bochum, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dani Ceballos signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dani Ceballos commits to VfL Bochum for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Filip Kostić rejects the move
VfL Bochum had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Juventus, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfL Bochum bid $390.0K for Luca Philipp
The offer went to TSG Hoffenheim 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Daniel Heber comes home
The shirt still fits. Daniel Heber is back at VfL Bochum, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at VfL Bochum
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dani Ceballos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfL Bochum rebuffed over Gerardo Herrera
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Veracruz have kept their man, and VfL Bochum go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Union Berlin join the queue for Koji Miyoshi
Add another name to the list: Union Berlin have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Koji Miyoshi. The answer from VfL Bochum has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Lars Becker joins the VfL Bochum first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lars Becker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Andreas Vogt steps up from the VfL Bochum academy
- Squad The formation has left Dani Ceballos behind
- Transfer targets VfL Bochum ask about Gustavo