Two faces of the crisis: Bundesliga stars expose their club's main issue
Two faces of the crisis: Bundesliga stars expose their club's main issue "The team, the we, comes before everything," 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 left out again, and Lovro Majer was once more absent from the starting lineup. Both cases highlight Wolfsburg’s biggest problem.
Amoura may deliver goals on the pitch, but in training he also keeps showing signs of indiscipline. According to 'kicker', Amoura had clashed with Leandro Paredes before the match against Bayern, who was also left out of the squad. "In situations like these, 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 suspension of the season. According to 'kicker', Amoura had also "gotten into a serious 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 a relegation battle despite spending 68 million euros on transfers (source: transfermarkt.
de) — is a constant source of unrest and can hardly be good for the atmosphere in the squad. 📸 Stuart Franklin - 2026 Getty Images Majer struggling on the pitch The situation with Lovro Majer is different: the versatile Croatian has only completely fallen out of favor 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, considering Majer, with a reported transfer fee of 25 million euros, is still the third-most expensive signing in the club’s history. In truth, Majer has never really lived up to that fee.
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