Mohamed Amoura: Wolfsburg's "unpredictable bouncy ball" is causing a huge stir in the Bundesliga this season

The Algerian forward has taken to German football like a duck to water and opposing teams are struggling to find ways to stop him from scoring or creating goals for Wolfsburg.

Wolfsburg have been a lot of fun to watch this season. They’re by no means the best club in the Bundesliga and perhaps not even the most improved, but there’s an unpredictability to Ralph Hasenhüttl’s side that often makes for good entertainment. Like the absurdity of the town the club resides in - which is little more than a housing estate welded onto the side of a car factory - the Wolves seem perfectly capable of beating RB Leipzig 5-1 and Mainz 4-3 or going toe-to-toe with Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich in hard-fought defeats, all while slipping up against the likes of Holstein Kiel, St Pauli or Augsburg. They’re by no means the finished article just yet. But few could doubt that Hasenhüttl has put the spring back in Wolfsburg’s step.

There are a number of reasons behind Wolfsburg’s march back into the top half of the table. But perhaps the most intriguing one is their pint-sized goalscorer and all-round attacking star Mohamed Amoura. Signed on loan from Union SG in the summer with a clause to make the deal permanent at the end of the season for €15 million, the Algerian striker has made a mockery of Bundesliga defences since making the short train journey east from Brussels. To date, Amoura has bagged eight goals and eight assists in his first 18 league games in the German top-flight, which has included two assists against Eintracht Frankfurt, a goal and assist against Leverkusen, a brace against RB Leipzig and a further two goals against Bayern Munich.

While Amoura is remarkably soft spoken and something of a wallflower off the pitch, he’s wasted no time in making waves on it for Wolfsburg this season. So much so that the player has already been linked with a move to England, where Arsenal have been keeping tabs on Amoura since his playing days in the Belgian top-flight. "I'm not afraid," scoffed Wolfsburg captain Maximilian Arnold recently, when asked about the prospect of Amoura being sold by Wolfsburg the minute they sign him permanently in the summer. “That's the business. If he carries on like this, we'll earn a lot of money. That's the next logical step for a player like that." Indeed, while Belgian football fans know all about Amoura’s talents and German ones are currently revelling in his attacking skills, it seems like only a matter of time before hordes of Premier League fanatics take to YouTube to dig through hours of the 24-year-old’s match highlights.