The VfL Wolfsburg Herald
Squad28 Aug 2028
Tempers go at VfL Wolfsburg
Mohamed Amoura was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market28 Aug 2028
VfL Wolfsburg sell Robert Glatzel for $1.3M
Robert Glatzel has left for Eintracht Frankfurt in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market28 Aug 2028
Lars Fischer is a VfL Wolfsburg player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market28 Aug 2028
Peter Bergmann comes home
The shirt still fits. Peter Bergmann is back at VfL Wolfsburg, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market28 Aug 2028
Marco Wagner comes home
The shirt still fits. Marco Wagner is back at VfL Wolfsburg, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad28 Aug 2028
VfL Wolfsburg lose Denis Vavro
61 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Aug 2028
No hiding place for Saël Kumbedi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Saël Kumbedi, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Aug 2028
VfL Wolfsburg count the cost of losing Jürgen Dietrich
41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
A masterclass from Ezechiel Banzuzi
Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Mohamed Amoura
- Player ratings A masterclass from Kento Shiogai
- Match Kento Shiogai rescues a point for VfL Wolfsburg