Niklas König

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2 Jan 2027
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5 Edition

The VfL Bochum Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market31 Aug 2026

Noah Loosli puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at VfL Bochum, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Vintage Philipp Hofmann — 7.82

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.82, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market31 Aug 2026

FC Augsburg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and VfL Bochum did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

William Clem will not be coming to VfL Bochum

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Copenhagen is saying, and nobody at VfL Bochum is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

VfL Bochum baulk at the price for Jeremy Dudziak

Hertha BSC wanted more than $630.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad31 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 targets31 Aug 2026

Venezia tell VfL Bochum: Filip Stanković 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Philipp Hofmann the difference as VfL Bochum beat Darmstadt 98

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Philipp Hofmann. 1‑0 against Darmstadt 98, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Luis Pick in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at VfL Bochum this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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  • The dugout Tom Rothe gets it from the manager
Back issues
4 Edition

The VfL Bochum Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Moritz-Broni Kwarteng hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what VfL Bochum can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

VfL Bochum make their move for Jeremy Dudziak

$630.0K on the table at Hertha BSC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

VfL Bochum go back to the board over Jeremy Dudziak

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $668.2K — a club that wants Jeremy Dudziak enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on William Clem

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. VfL Bochum have done the hard part with FC Copenhagen, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Alessandro Vogliacco

VfL Bochum asked and Cremonese said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A falling-out at VfL Bochum

Luis Pick and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad24 Aug 2026

VfL Bochum are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Niko Koulis is a square peg at VfL Bochum

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at VfL Bochum training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gerrit Holtmann is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief