The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Market30 Aug 2027
Bilal El Khannouss 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 The request is on a desk at VfB Stuttgart, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Bologna tell VfB Stuttgart: Jens Odgaard is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Dženan Pejčinović keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” VfB Stuttgart may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
VfB Stuttgart make their move for Oliver Sorg
$6.1M on the table at Stripfing. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
VfB Stuttgart bid $2.7M for Predrag Rajković
The offer went to Al-Ittihad this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Match28 Aug 2027
VfB Stuttgart make home a hard place to visit
11 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
Words at VfB Stuttgart training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jamie Leweling 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at VfB Stuttgart
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.
Market30 Aug 2027
One of our own: Andreas Klein joins the VfB Stuttgart first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Klein is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Ralph Schmid steps up from the VfB Stuttgart academy
- Market One of our own: Michael Vogt joins the VfB Stuttgart first team
- Match A bad afternoon for VfB Stuttgart against Schalke 04