Kyle Dempsey

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
4 Oct 2029
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Marked for Kyle Dempsey

94 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Luca Waldschmidt out for 45 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.

Market

Samuel Gigot asks to leave VfB Stuttgart

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Adam Hložek 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jordan Amavi

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

Squad

Words at VfB Stuttgart training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Deniz Undav 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.

Squad

A falling-out at VfB Stuttgart

Ramon Hendriks and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Álex Remiro gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Álex Remiro is on it.

Squad

No place for Kyle Dempsey in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation VfB Stuttgart are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

The Maximilian Mittelstädt talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. VfB Stuttgart know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
93 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Igor Jesus 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Luca Waldschmidt out for 54 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.

The dugout

Josha Vagnoman 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.

Match

VfB Stuttgart up to position 3

67 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Only the photograph left for Taisei Miyashiro

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

Squad

Tempers go at VfB Stuttgart

Jamie Leweling 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.

Squad

Takefusa Kubo 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.

Squad

Kyle Dempsey gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kyle Dempsey has just signed for VfB Stuttgart, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout

Jamie Leweling has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at VfB Stuttgart will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

78 Edition

The Bolton Wanderers Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Eoin Toal 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 Bolton Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Business is business: David Harrington goes

Sunderland paid $1.9M and Bolton Wanderers took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bolton Wanderers

Hayden Hackney and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Bolton Wanderers beat the market to Matty Warhurst from Manchester City

Manchester City will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Matty Warhurst has pre-agreed a move to Bolton Wanderers, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ibou Touray

Bolton Wanderers asked and Bradford City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Sam Dalby sends Bolton Wanderers past Watford

It finished 1‑0, and it was Sam Dalby’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bolton Wanderers.

Squad

Words at Bolton Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobías Donsanti 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 ratings

Sam Dalby was the difference for Bolton Wanderers

Marked 7.75. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Transfer targets

Bolton Wanderers ask about Patrick Ouotro

A loan enquiry to Gil Vicente: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief