The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Squad6 Nov 2034
Noah Visbeen damages knee ligaments — 132 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 132 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.
Squad6 Nov 2034
Chris Führich has been here 13 seasons
549 appearances across 13 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.
Market6 Nov 2034
Jozhua Vertrouwd has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around VfB Stuttgart they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Nov 2034
Silas Ostrzinski 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.
Squad6 Nov 2034
Words at VfB Stuttgart training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ameen Al-Dakhil 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.
Player ratings6 Nov 2034
Justin Diehl runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match4 Nov 2034
VfB Stuttgart draw a blank against Eintracht Frankfurt
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Eintracht Frankfurt defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Boardroom6 Nov 2034
$9.7M taken back off the VfB Stuttgart table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market6 Nov 2034
Toni Langsteiner leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Toni Langsteiner leaves VfB Stuttgart the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Friedrich Sauer leaves for nothing
- Market VfB Stuttgart put Patrick Bauer up for sale