The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Salvatore Mule
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. VfB Stuttgart lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match18 Nov 2026
The cup run ends for VfB Stuttgart
0‑1 against Hamburger SV, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Vangelis Pavlidis: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” VfB Stuttgart have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match21 Nov 2026
Tiago Tomás breaks Heidenheim hearts
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Tiago Tomás scored in the 89th minute, Heidenheim had already begun thinking about the journey home, and VfB Stuttgart took the lot.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at VfB Stuttgart
Jamie Leweling and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Deniz Undav 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Justin Diehl was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match21 Nov 2026
Tiago Tomás sends VfB Stuttgart past Heidenheim
It finished 2‑1, and it was Tiago Tomás’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to VfB Stuttgart.
The terraces23 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Uwe Werner
At 17 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.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Angelo Stiller
- Market José Martínez told to find a new club
- The dugout Can Bozdogan gets it from the manager