Koby Mottoh

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Process

Marked for Koby Mottoh

178 Edition

The Rapid Wien Chronicle

24 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Rapid Wien are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 34 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Mauro Martín is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rapid Wien is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Hannes Wolf 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 Rapid Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Rapid Wien training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikolaus Wurmbrand 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.

The dugout

Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

When it matters, Hannes Wolf plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

Željko Vitorović told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Željko Vitorović has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Rapid Wien.

Market

The Bendegúz Bolla talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rapid Wien know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Philipp Wiesinger placed on the list

Rapid Wien have made Philipp Wiesinger available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
148 Edition

The Rapid Wien Chronicle

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Claudy M'Buyi out for 35 days

35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rapid Wien lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

Continental nights are coming to Rapid Wien

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Boardroom

Jack Moylan signs for Austria Wien while still at Rapid Wien

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jack Moylan has agreed terms with Austria Wien for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao 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 Rapid Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Koby Mottoh gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Koby Mottoh has just signed for Rapid Wien, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Niklas Hedl 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

Nikolaus Wurmbrand returns a better player

14 games and 5 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.

The dugout

Nikolaus Wurmbrand gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nikolaus Wurmbrand is on it.

The dugout

Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief