Christoph Bauer

Attacking Midfielder (R) - VfB Stuttgart U18
12 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Christoph Bauer

4 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

VfB Stuttgart spend $20.1M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $20.1M has been paid because Konstantin Tyukavin is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Squad

A move Konstantin Tyukavin would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Konstantin Tyukavin is living that version at VfB Stuttgart, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

VfL Wolfsburg watching Luca Jaquez

The interest is real enough to have reached print. VfB Stuttgart have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Words at VfB Stuttgart training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Deniz Undav 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at VfB Stuttgart

3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Markus Schröder joins the VfB Stuttgart first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Markus Schröder is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief