Marked for Frans Krätzig
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Steady
Match21 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Red Bull Salzburg did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Moussa Yeo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market23 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Maurits Kjærgaard 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yorbe Vertessen. 1‑0 against Grodig, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.47 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Mamady Diambou 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.
Match5 Oct 2026
22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Moussa Yeo breaks a bone — 43 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match1 Oct 2026
0‑2 against Gil Vicente. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Frans Krätzig wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Red Bull Salzburg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
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 Red Bull Salzburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Red Bull Salzburg, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Match7 Sep 2026
Position 1 and 12 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Red Bull Salzburg heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Red Bull Salzburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Haris Tabaković 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Red Bull Salzburg did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artem Dzyuba 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tim Drexler is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Red Bull Salzburg will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Red Bull Salzburg have 3 straight wins of it.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 20 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Red Bull Salzburg will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Red Bull Salzburg 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Artem Dzyuba 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 Red Bull Salzburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Stefan Lainer
Nobody at Red Bull Salzburg is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Wolfsberger AC will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Red Bull Salzburg were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.24, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
Union Berlin pay $6.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Danilo Boza 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. Danilo Boza is living that version at Red Bull Salzburg, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Red Bull Salzburg heard it as anything else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Maurits Kjærgaard 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.