Markus Becker

Attacking Midfielder (L) - VfB Stuttgart
11 Aug 2041
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780 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

8 Jul 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Jul 2041

Leon Hoffmann damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad8 Jul 2041

A fracture rules Philipp Krämer out for 49 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason VfB Stuttgart will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad8 Jul 2041

Salvatore Mule has been here 15 seasons

91 appearances across 15 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market8 Jul 2041

Only the photograph left for Samuel Moreira

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samuel Moreira will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around VfB Stuttgart the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad8 Jul 2041

Words at VfB Stuttgart training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Max Rosenfelder 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.

Boardroom8 Jul 2041

VfB Stuttgart sign 11 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

In brief

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768 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

15 Apr 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings15 Apr 2041

Age has not caught Ianis Cicaldau yet — 8.07

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.07 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad15 Apr 2041

Bilal El Khannouss falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market15 Apr 2041

Only the photograph left for Sevi Idriz

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sevi Idriz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around VfB Stuttgart the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad15 Apr 2041

A muscle injury sidelines Ianis Cicaldau for 17 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. VfB Stuttgart will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad15 Apr 2041

Arijon Ibrahimović is carrying VfB Stuttgart

13 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad15 Apr 2041

Jovan Milošević asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

722 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

28 May 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 May 2040

Words at VfB Stuttgart training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Max Rosenfelder 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.

Market28 May 2040

Only the photograph left for Jonas Dietrich

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonas Dietrich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around VfB Stuttgart the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad28 May 2040

Ramon Hendriks 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 VfB Stuttgart this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 May 2040

A move Arsene Mekila would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Arsene Mekila is living that version at VfB Stuttgart, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom28 May 2040

Arsene Mekila will join VfB Stuttgart for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Arsene Mekila has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means VfB Stuttgart have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad28 May 2040

Davis Rath signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Davis Rath commits to VfB Stuttgart for another 3 years.

In brief