Bundesliga Fanatic

Ich weiß nicht, ob Magath die Titanic gerettet hätte, aber wenigstens wären alle Überlebenden sehr fit gewesen (“I do not know if Magath could have saved the Titanic, but at least all the survivors would have been very fit”) – Jan Åge Fjørtoft At the end of October 2012, Felix Magath’s second spell at VfL [...]

Wolfsburg aim to be the first team in 2013 to beat Bayern Munich when they host the league leaders on matchday 22.  It will be no easy feat though considering the fact that Bayern have dropped points only once on the road so far this season (1-1 vs. Nürnberg in the Hinrunde). No team in [...]

Dieter Hoeness has spent most of his time of late in the shadow of his older brother Uli. The public hasn’t seen or heard much from the former Wolfsburg, Hertha and Stuttgart manager after Felix Magath wanted to create his new, improved and successful version of VfL Wolfsburg without Hoeness.  Bild interviewed the former Bundesliga [...]

Around two months ago, I wrote a piece criticising Felix Magath’s transfer policy and suggesting he might be on his way out of Wolfsburg. Six weeks after Magath’s departure, much has changed both on and off the field. In the end, Felix Magath found himself caught between the old and the new at Wolfsburg. He was [...]

(The Bundesliga Fanatic neither endorses or claims responsibility for the writings and lifestyle of Dr. Splitter). As much as I love the Bundesliga. these midweek domestic matches tend to mess me up, creating a certain madness as I don’t have enough time to really dope out the upcoming fixtures with my usual thoroughness.  Generally, at [...]

The writing had been on the wall for some time but now it is official: Klaus Allofs has left Werder Bremen to join VfL Wolfsburg to climb Mount Magath. Werder’s former sporting director has signed a deal at Wolfsburg until the end of the 2015/16 season. Allofs’ new employer is going to pay him between [...]

On a Bundesliga MatchDay 9 Saturday that saw Mainz impress in a 3-0 win over hapless Hoffenheim and both Schalke and Borussia Dortmund build on their huge wins midweek in the Champions League, perhaps the most important win was earned by a struggling VfL Wolfsburg club,  Forty eight hours following the departure of Coach Felix [...]

Four losses in a row and the loss of trust from the players meant that enough was enough. Assistant coach Bernd Hollerbach and condition coach Werner Leuthard are also leaving the club according to kicker. Felix Magath offered himself to step down from his post as coach and manager at the club according to German [...]

VfL Wolfsburg head coach Felix Magath must have loved Championship Manager 01/02. That was the version of the popular football management simulation that contained a bug allowing managers to buy any player for free by bidding £50 million and then cancelling the offer at the contract negotiation stage – the result being a transfer kitty [...]

In 1992, both SpVgg Greuther Fürth and VfL Wolfsburg would be languishing in the lower reaches of the German league system. Fast forward twenty years, and the two sides who share the same green and white colours would be meeting in the 1. Bundesliga at Die Wölfe’s shiny and spakling Volkswagen-Arena. After their two-goal defeat [...]