The VfL Wolfsburg Herald
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at VfL Wolfsburg
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match28 Aug 2027
No mercy from VfL Wolfsburg
Köln will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. VfL Wolfsburg were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Both of them Jonathan Burkardt's — 9.11
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
A brace, and Mohamed Amoura takes the afternoon — 7.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mohamed Amoura provided it, and the 7.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Bence Dárdai is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
William Bøving 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. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Vini Souza signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vini Souza and VfL Wolfsburg agree another 4 years.
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.
In brief
- Market Christian Schmitt steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy
- Market Marc Walter steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy
- Market Paul Martin steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy