Marked for Peter Haring
From our football correspondent
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Market11 Jan 2027
Peter Haring hands in a written request
“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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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Squad11 Jan 2027
Andreas Kuen in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ahmet Muhamedbegović 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 targets11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dejan Fuchs has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Jan 2027
No place for Kevin Cárdenas in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Admira Wacker are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to CSKA Moscow: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Mats Hummels 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.
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Squad4 Jan 2027
Marko Raguž honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Admira Wacker had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Andreas Kuen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Pledl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Thomalla, and the manager let it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Admira Wacker, another week without a signature from Marko Raguž.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Alfred Duncan is in the works
Admira Wacker have made the call to Venezia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Peter Haring is 34, with 5 appearances behind him, and Admira Wacker will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Open for business: Admira Wacker enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Scherzer 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Salif Tietietta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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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Uneasy
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Admira Wacker
Position 9 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Andreas Kuen 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Scherzer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Marco Knaller
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Admira Wacker will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Denis Thomalla 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Andreas Kuen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Pledl 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Bauer, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Marco Knaller will call it something else in private.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Kevin Dragovic after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marko Raguž named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Marko Raguž has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Scherzer 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Knaller, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Kevin Dragovic to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.