The Altach Courier
Match7 Sep 2026
Altach are in real trouble now
Position 8, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Dejan Stojanović keeps Altach in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Altach against Rapid Wien
0-1 to Rapid Wien, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market7 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Altach and Vesel Demaku
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
97% of the income goes out in wages at Altach
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of David Schloffer
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Altach bring in an old head
Peter Haring is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lukas Jäger 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 Altach, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Sep 2026
Vesel Demaku linked with a move away
The name of Vesel Demaku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Altach say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Squad Somebody is after Vesel Demaku’s shirt
- Market Laurens Vermijl joins Altach on a free
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Dejan Stojanović