Two faces of the crisis: Bundesliga stars expose their club’s flaw
Two faces of the crisis: Bundesliga stars expose their club’s flaw "The team, the collective, comes above everything else" were the words former Wolves coach Daniel Bauer used in January to explain why top scorer Mohamed Amoura was missing from the squad. Last weekend against Bayern, he was dropped again, and Lovro Majer was once more absent from the starting lineup. Both cases highlight Wolfsburg’s biggest problem.
Amoura does deliver goals on the pitch, but in training he repeatedly shows a lack of discipline. According to 'kicker', Amoura had clashed with Leandro Paredes before the game against Bayern, who was also left out of the squad. "In situations like that, there are no two opinions: discipline has to be there, and in that moment in training, it wasn’t," current Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking told 'Sky'.
After a similar incident in January, it was the second such squad banishment of the season. According to 'kicker', Amoura had also been involved in "a full-blown altercation with full-back Joakim Maehle" toward the end of last season. The striker, who has at least scored eight goals in this crisis-hit campaign — in which Wolfsburg slid into the relegation battle despite transfer spending of 68 million euros (source: transfermarkt.
de) — is a constant source of unrest and can hardly be a positive influence on the atmosphere within the squad. 📸 Stuart Franklin - 2026 Getty Images Majer is struggling on the pitch The situation with Lovro Majer is different: the versatile Croatian has been completely sidelined under Hecking. Under the 61-year-old, he has played just 106 minutes.
In the brutal relegation battle, the experienced coach is relying on other players. It is actually crazy, given that with a reported fee of 25 million euros, Majer is still the third-most expensive signing in the club’s history. In truth, Majer has never really lived up to that price tag.
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