The Austria Klagenfurt Herald
Squad7 Sep 2026
Herbert Bockhorn gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Herbert Bockhorn has just signed for Austria Klagenfurt, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 18 in, 0 out at Austria Klagenfurt
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Andreas Gruber stays at DAC Dunajska Streda as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Austria Klagenfurt will try again when the window opens; DAC Dunajska Streda may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Joe Lewis 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 Austria Klagenfurt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Austria Klagenfurt baulk at the price for Lukas Schweighofer
WSG Tirol wanted more than $41.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Door shut on Joao Grimaldo
Austria Klagenfurt asked and Sparta Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Herbert Bockhorn has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Austria Klagenfurt know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nik Marinšek is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Nik Marinšek has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market7 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Austria Klagenfurt and Herbert Bockhorn
“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.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Sebastian Pschernig
- The dugout Simon Pirkl knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout When it matters, Marc Andre Schmerböck plays