The words a physio says slowly. 40 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.
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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakob Schöller 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.
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Grodig paid $54.0K and Admira Wacker took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Baumgartner 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.
5 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.
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.99, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Marco Baumgartner 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Gernot Grillitsch has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Baumgartner 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.
Marco Baumgartner 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 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.
“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.
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Valentino Prass scored in the 89th minute, Red Bull Salzburg had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Admira Wacker took the lot.
“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 Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Jakob Schöller is a Admira Wacker player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
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.
It finished 3‑2, and it was Valentino Prass’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Admira Wacker.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker spend $1.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.1M for Jakob Schöller, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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.
Add another name to the list: RC Lens have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Heinz Grillitsch. The answer from Admira Wacker has not changed — yet.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Heinz Grillitsch 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.