The VfL Wolfsburg Herald
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Tidiam Gomis runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
Anger at VfL Wolfsburg spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Erik Prekop out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason VfL Wolfsburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Aug 2027
7 matches without a win for VfL Wolfsburg
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around VfL Wolfsburg are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Max Finkgräfe at VfL Wolfsburg
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Max Finkgräfe is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at VfL Wolfsburg
Joakim Mæhle 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Arthur Cabral has improved at 29, 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.
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.
Market30 Aug 2027
VfL Wolfsburg promote Michael Weber from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Weber has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Marco Jung steps up from the VfL Wolfsburg academy
- Market One of our own: Patrick Martin joins the VfL Wolfsburg first team
- Market VfL Wolfsburg promote Ralph Meier from within