the--dud Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 VfL Wolfsburg, now here's a challenge for you! This decade (not counting the previous season) they have consistently finished between 8th and 15th in the German Bundesliga. For the 2007-08 season the club hired former Bayern Munich manager Felix Magath, with whom they managed to finish an astonishing 5th place at the end of the season and for the second time in the club's history, qualify for the UEFA cup. Can you match this, or indeed, do better? City of Wolfsburg: The city of Wolfsburg is very young, since it was planned by the Nazis in order to build a town for the workers of the Volkswagen factories. It was founded in 1938 as Stadt des KdF-Wagens ("City of the KdF Car") around the village of Hesslingen in the District of Gifhorn. Kraft durch Freude (abbreviated KdF and meaning "strength through joy") was the German state-controlled leisure organization; one of its projects was the KdF-Wagen, which would later be known as the VW Beetle. After World War II, in 1945, the city got its present name after the Wolfsburg castle located in the city, which was founded about 1300 on the bank of the Aller river. Today there is another castle at the place, which was built after 1600. In 1951, Wolfsburg was separated from the District of Gifhorn, and became an urban district. In November 2003, Wolfsburg was renamed Golfsburg for one week to celebrate the 5th generation of the Volkswagen Golf. VfL Wolfsburg: Full name: VfL Wolfsburg-Fußball GmbH Nickname(s): Die Wölfe (The Wolves) Founded: 1945 Ground: Volkswagen Arena, Wolfsburg (Capacity: 30,000) Chairman: Hans-Dieter Pötsch Manager: Felix Magath League: 2007/08 Bundesliga, 5th VfL Wolfsburg is a German sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, that currently plays in the country's first division Bundesliga. On September 12 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, a new club was formed and was known briefly as VSK Wolfsburg. This side began play in the green and white still worn by VfL today: local youth trainer Bernd Elberskirch had ten green jerseys at his disposal and white bed sheets donated by the public were sewn together by local women to make shorts. VfL went on to the top flight on the strength of a second place league finish in 1997. Early predictions were that the club would immediately be sent back down, but instead, the Wolves developed into a mid-table Bundesliga side. Recently, there was little success for the club, with two 15th place finishes only narrowly avoiding relegation. For the 2007-08 season the club hired former Bayern Munich manager Felix Magath, with whom they managed to finish an astonishing 5th place at the end of the season and for the second time in the club's history, qualify for the UEFA cup. Squad: It's perhaps a case of having two amazingly sold Italian defenders (which I will discuss later), and some over-all decent Brazilians, Portuguese and Germans. The squad is very thin with only 18 players, but quite good quality. Goalkeepers GK - Diego Benaglio*^ GK - Christoph Klein Defenders DRC - Cristian Zaccardo* DRC/DM/MC - Robert Werner DC - Ricardo Costa DC - Andrea Barzagli DC - Serdar Breu DL - Kevin Maier Midfielders DMC/MC - Josué* DMC/MRLC - Patrick Seitz DMC/MC - Elias Hornig DMC/MC - Tobias Berger MLC - Maik Haufe AMRLC/FC - Sebastian Schaaf AMR/ST - Niklas Ullrich Forwards ST - Grafite* FC - Elias Wagner ST - Ronald Walzlein The players marked with ^ are promising and capable youngster, the ones with * are important and established players. In my opinion of course... Players out: (Most important transfers, not complete) DC - Facundo Quiroga (River Plate) DC - Peter van der Heyden (Mainz 05) MC - Cedric Makiadi (MSV Duisburg) ST - Danijel Ljuboja (VfB Stuttgart) Wolfsburg has been able to bring in some amazing Italian defenders, and this was the reason why I picked to do a thread on them in the first place. Zaccardo is absolutely brilliant and solid as a rock. Barzagli does not really need an introduction, as he was one of the best defenders in FM08, and has similar stats this year. State of Affairs As mentioned earlier the two Italian defenders really stands miles above the rest of the team. As for depth, they don't have any. Their midfield is quite average, perhaps with the captain Josué sticking out as quality. They don't really have any prolific strikers, but Grafite is OK but should not be your best striker. I would probably choose to play quite a defensive 4-5-1 or 4-4-2 if you can sign another quality striker. You're always going to be fighting an uphill battle here so I think you have to be clever with signings and tactics. Realistically you want to aim for mid-table, if ambitious you can go for Continental. Compare your squad to Bayern/Shalke/Stuttgart and be realistic. However, the Bundesliga is a lot more even than say the Premier League. Best Established Player Andrea Barzagli - CB Andrea Barzagli born May 8, 1981 in Fiesole, is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays for VfL Wolfsburg and the Italian national football team. Barzagli was deployed six times under the UEFA EURO 2008 qualifying matches and appeared in the crucial 2-1 victory over Scotland. He was recalled to Italy's UEFA Euro 2008 squad and partnered Materazzi in the heavy 0-3 defeat against The Netherlands after Italian skipper Fabio Cannavaro on June 2 suffered an injury in training. In 2008 Barzagli choose to join VfL Wolfsburg and the Bundesliga following fellow Italian and team-mate Cristian Zaccardo. We all know what an absolute legend this player was on FM08, and he is still pretty good on FM09. He is very solid and a classic Centre Back which wont let you down too often. Best Young Player Diego Benaglio - GK Diego Benaglio (born 8 September 1983) is a Swiss footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. Benaglio started his career with his Grasshoppers Zürich and played there for several seasons before moving to Germany to join VfB Stuttgart. After a brief period there, he joined C.D. Nacional where he eventually became first choice On 22 January 2008 he signed for VfL Wolfsburg. Benaglio is a member of the Swiss national team and was called up to the squad for the 2006 World Cup. During this competition he was third choice goalkeeper behind Pascal Zuberbühler and Fabio Coltorti. With consistently good performances in 2008, he was promoted to first choice goalkeeper for Euro 2008 in his home country. To be honest I struggled to find a young player in this team, as most players are quite old. This keeper Benaglio isn't really young at 25 years old, but for a keeper he can be considered young. He looks really promising and quite solid for his age. One to keep an eye on I think! Misc...:: I'm at work, so I can't guarantee ALL information to be 100% accurate, but I will proof-read everything as soon as I can. As always, any comments/corrections/feedback more than welcome, don't hesitate to get involved! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 My favourite (together with Schalke) German team. Only because Gerets was once manager there. Kind of boring but i will say it again, great thread mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jams1234 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Mate, you've made some excellent Club Threads. But that picture you've said is the city of Wolfsburg is also the picture you put for the Saint-Etienne thread? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 That just ruins the whole thread for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ah cheers jams1234, I changed the image to the correct one on St. Etienne now... That's what you get for using the previous post as template for the next one I guess haha :o Cheers for all the compliments, keeps me going purefun, yeah I've handed in my notice to start another job... Just sitting at work doing no work at all What did you mean by boring? My threads or Wolfsburg itself? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jams1234 Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Ah, okay the--dud. BTW your Club Threads are really good. A lot of people will benefit from them Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 No mate me saying ooh what a great thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 Yeh, I'm almost getting embarrassed by all the praise :o But as I said, to be honest it'll keep me going! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kun_Aguero Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 would be nice to add budget. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 8, 2008 Author Share Posted November 8, 2008 You're probably right Kun Aguero, I'll try and add that to all my team threads Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ede Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 did you know their former manager? wolfgang wolf (its no joke!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 8, 2008 Author Share Posted November 8, 2008 Haha, never knew that... Funny! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboblue Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 great thread, wolfsburg (and hamburg) are my favourite german teams so this thread is very helpful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 10, 2008 Author Share Posted November 10, 2008 Cool, hope I did your team justice then mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted November 13, 2008 Author Share Posted November 13, 2008 Not an aweful lot of people interested in taking on Wolfsburg? Anyone gonna start a game with them tomorrow then?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
football_master_94 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Just started a save with Wolfsburg on the new patch so i'll be updating Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocimpean Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 It seems irl Wolfsburg is doing very well, I was looking for Dzeko, amazing season, but he is not even in the fm09 team? :confused: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 On 9.3.0 he is mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost31 Posted May 25, 2009 Share Posted May 25, 2009 I cant believe this thread is so empty Wolfsburg are an awesome team, IRL they have just won their first bundesliga, which is more or less impossible to do in game. But none the less they are a fun team to play as, the expectations are low and the squad is good enough for top 4 finish. Ive just started a new game as Wolfsburg. Key Players(don't sell):- Josue Dzeko Grafite(top goalscorer) Barzagli Zaccardo Benaglio Outs(Note as with any club changing the squad around too much is a recipe for disaster):- Dejagah - Liverpool £5M Jan Simunek - Everton - £4.5M (Board Accepted) Johhnathan Santana - £1.7M Ricardo Costa - £2.6M Makoto Hasebe - £2M Ins:- De La Red - £2.1M(Great Player) Hedwiges Maduro - £1.5M(Bought for centre back, but 10 for jumping and marking Mehmet Ekici - Loan After 22 games im sitting 4th in the league, my long term goal is to be the german Barcelona/Man U. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jssy! Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 how much money do u start off with ??? as i may start one depending on the budget situation cheers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jssy! Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 just started one with wolfsburg grafite banging them in so far.. got high tempo , short passes and lots of width so my team play attractive footy ..... i hope!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the--dud Posted May 27, 2009 Author Share Posted May 27, 2009 By the way, says here, die wolfe gets $4.8m for top half finish... Which isn't bad for Bundesliga Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Im going to start a new one, my first with Wolfsburg, is Dzeko on there, or do you need to load the leagues, because on my arsenal save, he isnt there. think ill try and get Eboue in but depends what squad looks like, will take ages to load up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattya456 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 jsut started with wolfsburg on 9.03! loving it!! COME ON BOYSSSSS!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 My save is going well Got Eboue, Helguera, Lewandwoski, Trecarichi. My sale is Hasebe so Ive got basically no budget left. November, 5th in league. Got the most impossible UEFA Cup group, AC Milan, PSG, Deportivo and Pompey. Won 2-0 vs PSG so far. Still in German cup. Its on an update so Dzeko is very good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 Anyone doing a Wolfsburg save? I'm doing mine but wont post unless someone else does. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Screw it I will post. I started a save on an update meaning Dzeko and Grafite have been improved and all transfers IRl are done. I bought Vicente and Ouwo Moussa Maazou in for a combined £12m. Only sold Ricardo Costa for £5.5m and a couple of loans. Wolfsburg have a large budget on this save (~£40m). I'm 1st in the league after 5 games with 4 wins and a draw. Even though Dzeko has been improved he hasnt scored and Vicente and Josue are my joint top goalscorers on 2, with Martins, Grafite and Kahlenberg each having scored one. Will update in February. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oktoberfest1 Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 I started one up, last game I start until 2010 comes out. I think back and I had the most success playing as Dortmund in FM2006. So I thought I would try the Bundesliga again. Before the season even started, I have to say I have never seen so many players become unhappy so fast. Jeez, one team comes inquiring and they become extremely unhappy. Been a challenge dealing with unhappy players and them losing faith in me. I finished the first season, came in 2nd place, only 2 pts from winning it. Brought in: Lavezzi - excelled scored 17g and 10a Ochirossi Zuculini Lambo Inzaghi Opare Polenz Joaquin all for $7.25 million Sold: Graphite 9.25 million Second Season started, Chelsea come asking about Benaglio and now he is unhappy. Florentina asked about Zaccardo and now unhappy. I offered both 90k a week in wages and both turned it down lol. Brought in: Criscito Vennegor of Hesselink (doing very good so far as my sub) Dzeko is really blossoming this year. Kadlec Borges Goossens various other regens 14 million Sold Lambo Munteanu Schafer Radu 12 million I think I have a really good squad now, unfortunately Benaglio is unhappy. The guy is a really solid GK, one of the best I've had in a game. Only Buffon has been better for me. I guess if he demands a transfer I will go for Ochoa or the young Russian from CSKA Moscow, can't remember his name right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purefun Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 That would be Akinfeev. Also have a look at Asenjo and Lloris, Madanda (Marseille). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelsall Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Any ideas for a right mid fielder ? cheap player as i only have 2.5 mil left Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelsall Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Actually have 14 mill after adjusting budgets Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Lulinha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinu Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Mazzarani maybe to add another Italian Witsel might be another idea, or Hoffenheims Obasi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
potemkin125 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I have no home grown players. Is that right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 On a new save, I would think thats not right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinu Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Platins, Wolze, Evljuskin (+Makiadi who is on a loan) are Homegrown in first team it says for me (Mid of August, no clue if they sold some) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
potemkin125 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Im playing with latest weegie db - must be a fault in there i reckon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikal Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Going to start a new game as Wolfsburg on Sortitoutsi's updated database. They seem like a good challenge for the first few seasons to try and dominate domestically, then Europe. Few promising players to try and develop as well! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpool14 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I am going to start a game as wolfsburg after they have impressed me in the champions league il give u an update later on Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparey Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 anyone know any tips on who to buy/sell from the Wolfsburg team, first season on the sortitoutsi update Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sned777 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Get a backup striker, maybe Sercan Yildirim. Sell Munteanu. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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