The VfL Bochum Sentinel
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at VfL Bochum
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Johan Gómez out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason VfL Bochum will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Door shut on Nathaniel Brown
VfL Bochum asked and Bayern Munich said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Koji Miyoshi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” VfL Bochum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Aug 2027
Daniel Hülsenbusch asks to leave VfL Bochum
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Josip Šutalo is a medical away from VfL Bochum
The deal with Ajax is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Baboucarr Faal will not be coming to VfL Bochum
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Viktoria Plzen is saying, and nobody at VfL Bochum is enjoying the guessing.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at VfL Bochum
Philipp Strompf and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at VfL Bochum
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- Market VfL Bochum promote Marc Schulz from within
- Market Karl Baumann steps up from the VfL Bochum academy
- Market Georg Maier steps up from the VfL Bochum academy