The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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
- Market A long bet from VfB Stuttgart on Thomas Hofmann
- Player ratings Johannes Eggestein's mistake decides it
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Guilherme Guedes