Louis Van Gaal gets new striker Mario Gómez

New Bayern coach Louis Van Gaal started his days off right as Mario Gómez has left VfB for München. With a fee of rumoured to be €30m Bayern apparently met VfB's heavy demands and there was no other choice the club could make

VfB sport director Horst Heldt said of the deal "We managed to hold onto Mario twice. Now he has decided to make a move. That is a real shame! Mario has served VfB fantastically and once again this season had a massive part to play in the success of the team."

Mario Gómez out for Energie Cottbus

VfB revealed today that Mario Gómez is out for this weekends Energie Cottbus match with a muscle stain. There is concerned that the German international may not be ready to face the Bavarians the following weeks as well. Serdar Tasci and Mexican capped Pável Pardo both were absent from practice due to injuries but are expected to be fully-fit for the weekend.

Vfb suffer horrible loss

In a match that cost Armin Veh his job, Vfb lost to Wolfsburg 4-1 at Volkswagen Area. The scoreline hides the fact that although die Roten were missing Ricardo Osorio, Pavel Pardo and Sami Khedira from last weekends lineup they took the lead seventeen minutes after the opening whistle as Martin Lanig scored from close range, coming off a Mario Gómez shot. However midfield weakness and poor tactical planning to deal with who I feel is one of the most valuable players in the Bundesliga, Zvjezdan Misimović. The Bosnia and Herzegovina international was a whirlwind of action and stretch and prodded the Vfb defenders incessantly. While die Roten held them back through the break through Jens Lehmann and a ample serving of good fortune it wasn't long till the home side broke through. With the restart Wolfsburg hungered for the tying goal and got at the fifty-first minute when Grafite latched onto a rebound of Zvjezdan Misimović shot and drove it behind Jens. The pace of the match slow slightly for the next ten minutes and Wolfsburg padlocked Vfb's forward assaults to perfection. Six minutes past the hour-mark Brazilian striker Grafite continued to terrorize Vfb picking his second goal of the match. It is speculative in-nature but the response from the club at this stage certainly added to the contention that they lack focus with a series of defensive blunders and a managerial change was needed. Only three minutes after the go-ahead goal Misimović's Plavo-žuti mate Edin Džeko scored and added his second with five minutes to play.

Following the match Armin Veh said:

"We were very disciplined throughout the first half and everything was very orderly. We went into the break in the lead and confident. We ruined things for ourselves with the mistakes we made. It was clear to see that we are not mentally in good form at the moment. We lost our shape and had nothing in reserve after we went 2-1 down. We are in a difficult position at the moment and need to remedy that."

Thomas Hitzlsperger comments were one-hundred per-cent accurate when he said:

"We played exactly as we had set out to do in the first half. We closed down the spaces early on and put together a couple of good moves ourselves. The lead was a bit lucky maybe but we were playing well at the time. We lost the plot once they equalised and made simple mistakes which Wolfsburg punished. The way this game went is typical of our current situation - we can't pull ourselves together once we've conceded."

a Mario Gómez late show

After a back and forth first half, a late two-goal flurry by Mario Gómez gave die Roten the victory over Belgrade's FK Partizan. As expected the twenty-one year-old Serbian international Zoran Tošić was a dynamo of activity, constantly creating and proving why he is being watched by some of the biggest clubs in Europe. The match started on a razors edge where goals seemed ready to fill either nets but someone they managed to stay free-of till the break. At the re-start, the Serbian club came out pressing for the lead and they would have had it early but Jens Lehmann robbed Lamine Diarra with a top-shelf stop. Slowly VfB started to slice Partizan's defenders apart and with fourteen minutes later Mario Gómez struck the opening goal of the match from twenty meters after intercepting a poor defending clearance. Only four minutes later, he added his second goal from just inside the area after collecting a pass from Cacau and made the final score 2-0 for VfB.