David Lemos

Attacking Midfielder (R) - VfL Wolfsburg
27 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for David Lemos

17 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to VfL Wolfsburg's wait for a win

14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at VfL Wolfsburg has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Timon Wellenreuther is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Timon Wellenreuther: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Squad

A fracture rules Robert Glatzel out for 109 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.

Match

VfL Wolfsburg march on in the cup

TSG Hoffenheim are out and VfL Wolfsburg go through, 0‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

David Lemos was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

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.

The dugout

Timon Wellenreuther 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.

Squad

A row about effort at VfL Wolfsburg

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

Player ratings

From twelve yards, and Gerard Deulofeu misses

A penalty is the one moment in football with nowhere to hide, and he did not score it. The walk back was long and the week will be longer.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The VfL Wolfsburg Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Sebastian Martin is a medical away from VfL Wolfsburg

The deal with Veracruz is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

VfL Wolfsburg rebuffed over Ibrahim Maza

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bayer Leverkusen have kept their man, and VfL Wolfsburg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

An offer of $8.8M for Mario Vušković

VfL Wolfsburg have gone to Hamburger SV with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Maximilian Arnold 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.

Squad

Words at VfL Wolfsburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saël Kumbedi 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

No place for Hansel Zapata in the new shape

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

Looking ahead

Yannick Gerhardt goes back to face Köln

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Yannick Gerhardt’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and VfL Wolfsburg needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

David Lemos joins VfL Wolfsburg to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and VfL Wolfsburg have gone and got theirs early.

Squad

Nathan Tella remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at VfL Wolfsburg would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief