The VfL Wolfsburg Herald
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andreas Weimann
115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. VfL Wolfsburg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Cedric Teuchert scores twice — 8.50
Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market30 Aug 2027
Andreas Weimann puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at VfL Wolfsburg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Saël Kumbedi at VfL Wolfsburg
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Saël Kumbedi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Mohamed Amoura 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 VfL Wolfsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Aug 2027
VfL Wolfsburg make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Luca Jaquez has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Graduation day at VfL Wolfsburg
5 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
VfL Wolfsburg find a way past Köln
Köln made VfL Wolfsburg work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Player ratings Kostas Koulierakis in the eights
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Kostas Koulierakis
- Market One of our own: Andreas Meyer joins the VfL Wolfsburg first team