Marked for Oliver Sorg
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
SV Ried asked and LASK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $85.3K — a club that wants Dean Titkov enough to be asked twice.
Market24 Aug 2026
Oliver Sorg has left for WSG Tirol in a $960.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$100.0K on the table at Rapid Wien. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$80.0K was the most the club would pay and First Vienna were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evan Eghosa commits to SV Ried for another 4 years.
Back issues
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and WSG Tirol waiting with a shirt. Nobody at SV Ried is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
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.
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
An offer of $74.0K for Dean Titkov
SV Ried have gone to First Vienna with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Nikki Havenaar 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Stripfing have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dominik Kirnbauer. The answer from SV Ried has not changed — yet.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Kingstone Mutandwa’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SV Ried.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
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The dugout
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Dennis Jastrzembski beats them one at a time
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Crisis
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Oliver Sorg
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. WSG Tirol have done the hard part with SV Ried, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No deal for Noah Botic at that price
WSG Tirol offered $1.9M; Austria Wien said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Benjamin Markuš 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Quincy Butler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to SV Ried, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation WSG Tirol are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for SV Ried
0‑5 against Rapid Wien, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market10 Aug 2026
SV Ried say no — this time
The offer from WSG Tirol for Oliver Sorg 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Leitner and SV Ried agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The fee is $150.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Grazer AK drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dominik Grillitsch has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Heinz Baumgartner is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonas Mayer, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
Benjamin Markuš arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Benjamin Markuš has, at WSG Tirol, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.85, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Austria Wien this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$1.6M on the table at LASK. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.7M — a club that wants Maximilian Entrup enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Stade de Reims keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at WSG Tirol
David Gugganig 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.