The VfB Stuttgart Gazette
Market4 Sep 2028
Rasmus Højlund 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 The request is on a desk at VfB Stuttgart, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Sep 2028
Not going: Ramon Hendriks stays at VfB Stuttgart
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Greuther Fürth had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets4 Sep 2028
Eintracht Frankfurt tell VfB Stuttgart: Duvan Valencia 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.
Transfer targets4 Sep 2028
Fee done, terms next for Mark Flekken
VfB Stuttgart and Bayer Leverkusen have settled on $780.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Window shuts: 22 in, 17 out at VfB Stuttgart
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 22 arrived, 17 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market4 Sep 2028
Jonathan Tah wants more than VfB Stuttgart are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad4 Sep 2028
11 VfB Stuttgart players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 11 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
Market4 Sep 2028
The SV Elversberg deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Stefan Drljača reports back to VfB Stuttgart with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
VfB Stuttgart go back to the board over Mark Flekken
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $906.3K — a club that wants Mark Flekken enough to be asked twice.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at VfB Stuttgart
- Match The run is over for VfB Stuttgart
- Squad Uwe Wolff signs a new deal