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40 Edition

The Altach Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Altach

Position 12 and 10 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.

Market

Vesel Demaku puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Altach, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Altach

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Altach is running low.

Squad

Mike-Steven Bähre 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 Altach this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Benedikt Zech 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.

Market

Altach and Paul Komposch are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Altach have started building around Rassa Rahmani

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Boardroom

$6.4M taken back off the Altach table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Squad

Is this David Stec’s last season?

“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” David Stec is 34, with 1 appearances behind him, and Altach will have to plan for whichever answer comes.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Altach Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Miroslav Marković breaks a bone — 158 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 158 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A row about effort at Altach

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Piet Scobel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Piet Scobel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Piet Scobel, and the manager let it.

Squad

The decline has begun for David Stec

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Altach is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad

A falling-out at Altach

Erkin Yalcin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Alexander Gorgon has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Alexander Gorgon has written the date down.

In brief

10 Edition

The Altach Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

9 matches without a win for Altach

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Altach are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Altach

Mike-Steven Bähre 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Altach

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yann Massombo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Altach

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.

The dugout

Ousmane Diawara is still paying for one afternoon at Altach

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Darko Brašanac

A mark of 7.68, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

David Stec stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Stec and Altach agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Srđan Hrstić

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The form table has caught Piet Scobel

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.

In brief