Thomas Hofmann

Goalkeeper - VfB Stuttgart U20
1 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

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The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Badredine Bouanani runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Guilherme Guedes gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Guilherme Guedes has just signed for VfB Stuttgart, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

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.

Squad

Hugo Mallo 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 VfB Stuttgart this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Chema Andrés out for 34 days

The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Chema Andrés, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market

The Jeff Chabot conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bayer Leverkusen will make the call about Jeff Chabot this week. VfB Stuttgart have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Market

Rogério wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Match

Borussia Mönchengladbach take the points off VfB Stuttgart

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

VfB Stuttgart buy the years ahead of Florian Möller

He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief