The VfL Wolfsburg Herald
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Nathan Tella
VfL Wolfsburg and Bayer Leverkusen have settled on $25.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No deal for Kevin Schade at that price
VfL Wolfsburg offered $48.2M; Brentford said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg rebuffed over Vitaly Janelt
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brentford have kept their man, and VfL Wolfsburg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg make their move for Elias Baum
$6.5M on the table at Eintracht Frankfurt. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Muhammed Damar stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Muhammed Damar and VfL Wolfsburg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at VfL Wolfsburg
Maximilian Arnold and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg count the cost of losing Jeremy Toljan
28 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Luka Ilić arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Luka Ilić has, at VfL Wolfsburg, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Kevin Kraus joins the VfL Wolfsburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kevin Kraus 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 One of our own: Stephan Berger joins the VfL Wolfsburg first team
- Market Helmut Weiß steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy
- Market David Graf steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy