Marked for Deni Alar
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sanoussy Ba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Justin Forst and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Admira Wacker know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Matteo Meisl knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Admira Wacker, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes Deni Alar a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Admira Wacker. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
9 starts now, an average of 6.78, and the team sheet at First Vienna has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
9 starts and an average of 6.80. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 9 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Aristot Tambwe-Kasengele is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sanoussy Ba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Andrés Andrade falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jörg Siebenhandl, and the manager let it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Heinz Lienhart after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Admira Wacker are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Deni Alar
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elias Lorenz is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sanoussy Ba is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Top-of-the-table clash for Admira Wacker
Stripfing next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Jacopo Sala
Everybody at Admira Wacker saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 35 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured for Sanoussy Ba
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Admira Wacker told Sanoussy Ba something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aristot Tambwe-Kasengele, and the manager let it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Andrés Andrade keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Admira Wacker say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Stripfing in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Triumph
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.43, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match19 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Admira Wacker have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
15 combined actions and 6.74. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Andrés Andrade falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Felix Holzhacker and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Justin Forst’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Admira Wacker.
Squad21 Sep 2026
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Deni Alar gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Triumph
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Admira Wacker can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.18 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match12 Sep 2026
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Sanoussy Ba and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Stefan Haudum falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match12 Sep 2026
FAC Wien made Admira Wacker work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.42, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matteo Meisl, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
LASK did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $3.1M for Andrés Andrade, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Aston Villa; Admira Wacker go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lukas Malicsek and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Aaron Sky Schwarz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrés Andrade is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Deni Alar
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.