Marked for Jonas Mayer
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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
SV Ried through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Grodig, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Fabian Rossdorfer at 20 — 7.95
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Fabian Rossdorfer did not need any: 7.95, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Ante Bajić runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.33 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
SV Ried make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now SV Ried have 4 straight wins of it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Astra is saying, and nobody at SV Ried is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Modena have kept their man, and SV Ried go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Evan Eghosa 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.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Marlon Mustapha took the headlines on an afternoon when everything SV Ried tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.62, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market17 Aug 2026
SV Ried say no — this time
The offer from Cavese for Jonas Mayer 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 targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Haladas keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Pomer 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.
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Uneasy
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SV Ried will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Oliver Sorg has gone, the accounts have $1.2M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Haladas is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Oliver Sorg goes
Lugano paid $1.2M and SV Ried took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andreas Leitner commits to SV Ried for another 3 years.
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
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Kalajdzic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Marlon Mustapha would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marlon Mustapha is living that version at SV Ried, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Cavese have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jonas Mayer. The answer from SV Ried has not changed — yet.
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
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.
Transfer targets3 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Red Bull Salzburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ante Bajić
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Philipp Pomer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.