Marked for Andreas Leitner
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. SV Ried lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match9 Jan 2027
Chastening afternoon for SV Ried
A 0‑3 beating by Altach was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around SV Ried people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oliver Sorg is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
David Moses beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Nikki Havenaar 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. SV Ried lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what SV Ried can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.92 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market4 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and SV Ried did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jordan Ferri and SV Ried agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jonas Mayer 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 targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz have kept their man, and SV Ried go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match2 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kingstone Mutandwa. 2‑1 against Grazer AK, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
Melvin de Leeuw damages knee ligaments — 42 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market21 Dec 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Felix Wimmer: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” SV Ried have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and SV Ried know it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jonas Mayer 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Nikki Havenaar 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted SV Ried
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at SV Ried can tell you which week it ends in.
Match19 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Sturm Graz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
Jonas Mayer 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 SV Ried can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Andreas Leitner 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.
The terraces23 Nov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over WSG Tirol, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ante Bajić beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.97 on the card, and the SV Ried support went home talking about one name.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nikki Havenaar is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Marko Trimmel, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikki Havenaar 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabian Rossdorfer and SV Ried agree another 4 years.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Salvatore Sirigu asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at SV Ried
Something was said to Martin Rasner and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
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
SV Ried have made Jonas Mayer available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Oliver Sorg talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. SV Ried know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Dejan Radonjić 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonas Mayer, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
SV Ried 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Red Bull Salzburg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Marko Trimmel chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
SV Ried take on the side everybody is chasing
Rapid Wien arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at SV Ried, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” SV Ried may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Evan Eghosa
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikki Havenaar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for SV Ried against Altach
0‑1 to Altach, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at SV Ried
Something was said to Luka Capan and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christian Lichtenberger was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Everybody at SV Ried saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 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
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Experience through the door at SV Ried
Melvin de Leeuw arrives at 38 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yusuf Maart’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Jussef Nasrawe has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at SV Ried will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Dejan Radonjić asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.61, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
David Moses pops up at the right end — 7.94
7.94, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad5 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 SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikki Havenaar 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
The terraces5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marvin Knoll and SV Ried agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at SV Ried
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for SV Ried
A 0‑3 beating by LASK was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andreas Leitner 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikki Havenaar was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market28 Sep 2026
No place for Jonas Mayer in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jonas Mayer has his answer from SV Ried; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout28 Sep 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 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Marko Trimmel to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Evan Eghosa
“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 terraces28 Sep 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Grazer AK in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
SV Ried say no — this time
The offer from WSG Tirol for Nikki Havenaar was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
LASK wanted more than $1.5M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Red Bull Salzburg have kept their man, and SV Ried go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $68.2K — a club that wants Daniel Sumbu enough to be asked twice.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to SV Ried's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at SV Ried has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The offer went to Sturm Graz this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evan Eghosa commits to SV Ried for another 4 years.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and SV Ried did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around SV Ried people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
SV Ried offered $2.4M; LASK said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $108.1K — a club that wants Tobias Gruber enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nikki Havenaar 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to WSG Tirol, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Christian Lichtenberger is living that version at SV Ried, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SV Ried have gone to LASK with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.6M — a club that wants Andrés Andrade enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Leitner and SV Ried agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andreas Leitner 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 targets10 Aug 2026
SV Ried have gone to Wolfsberger AC with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcel Schlager 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andreas Hinteregger has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yusuf Maart and SV Ried agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yusuf Maart 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikki Havenaar 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andreas Leitner, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months and counting on Yusuf Maart
Still no offer on the table, and Yusuf Maart’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and SV Ried are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marko Trimmel after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.