Nicolas Cozza

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48 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

VfL Wolfsburg bid $35.0M for Elijah Adebayo

The offer went to Luton Town this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A fracture rules Trevor Benedict out for 24 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.

Market28 Jun 2027

Diego García asks to leave VfL Wolfsburg

“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.

Market28 Jun 2027

VfL Wolfsburg may not be able to give Julian Weigl what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Julian Weigl wants continental football; whether VfL Wolfsburg can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Stijn Keller due for a VfL Wolfsburg medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at VfL Wolfsburg

Nathan Tella 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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Jahmai Simpson-Pusey is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Jun 2027

A late step up for Julian Weigl

At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Julian Weigl knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at VfL Wolfsburg, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

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19 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Dec 2026

Timon Wellenreuther keeps VfL Wolfsburg in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

A brace, and Tim Lemperle takes the afternoon — 8.84

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Tim Lemperle provided it, and the 8.84 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Age has not caught Ante Rebić yet — 8.44

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.44 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Nathan Tella

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market7 Dec 2026

Julian Weigl wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at VfL Wolfsburg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Nathan Tella 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 VfL Wolfsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Dec 2026

A row about effort at VfL Wolfsburg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximilian Arnold was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match5 Dec 2026

VfL Wolfsburg get the job done against VfB Stuttgart

A 3‑2 win over VfB Stuttgart, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

The manager makes an example of Julian Weigl

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

13 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Vintage Ante Rebić — 8.25

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.25, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market26 Oct 2026

Rogério 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 VfL Wolfsburg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market26 Oct 2026

Julian Weigl wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at VfL Wolfsburg

Nathan Tella 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.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A row about effort at VfL Wolfsburg

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maximilian Arnold was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match24 Oct 2026

Ante Rebić sends VfL Wolfsburg past Mainz 05

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ante Rebić’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to VfL Wolfsburg.

Loan watch26 Oct 2026

Kento Shiogai counts the days

“I watch every VfL Wolfsburg game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Borussia Mönchengladbach runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

A satisfied Ralf Schröder

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Ralf Schröder could afford to be generous.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Rogério

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

10 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match3 Oct 2026

Nowhere to hide for VfL Wolfsburg

0‑3 against Bayer Leverkusen, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Timon Wellenreuther

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

VfL Wolfsburg lose Nathan Tella

35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A falling-out at VfL Wolfsburg

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

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at VfL Wolfsburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maximilian Arnold 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.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Julian Weigl gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Nathan Tella

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Nobody left the VfL Wolfsburg dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Ralf Schröder left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

7 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Sep 2026

Nathan Tella 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 VfL Wolfsburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Erick Cabaco gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Erick Cabaco has just signed for VfL Wolfsburg, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Maximilian Arnold 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

VfL Wolfsburg come up short against Borussia Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market14 Sep 2026

VfL Wolfsburg promote Klaus Hofmann from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Klaus Hofmann 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

VfL Wolfsburg promote Christoph Beck from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christoph Beck 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Rogério beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market14 Sep 2026

Erick Cabaco arrives at VfL Wolfsburg as the heir apparent

Every dressing room knows how to read a signing like this one. Erick Cabaco is not here to sit and wait indefinitely, and the man whose place he has been bought to take knows it better than anyone.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Cleiton signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cleiton commits to VfL Wolfsburg for another 4 years.

In brief