Oliver Sorg

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20 Aug 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Oliver Sorg

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The Sturm Graz Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Philipp Wiesinger 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 Sturm Graz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Jon Gorenc Stankovič 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Ibrahim Buhari

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

When it matters, Niklas Geyrhofer 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

Arjan Malić linked with a move away

The name of Arjan Malić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sturm Graz say nothing, which says plenty.

Match

Sturm Graz have something to play for

Position 6 on 22 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.

The dugout

Richard Sukuta-Pasu has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Richard Sukuta-Pasu has written the date down.

The dugout

Petar Petrović 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.

Squad

Oliver Sorg is the talk of the training ground

Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The SV Ried Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Rapid Wien tell SV Ried: Petter Nosa Dahl is not for sale

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 targets

No thanks: Yoël van den Ban rejects the move

SV Ried had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at AZ, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at SV Ried

Ante Bajić 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.

Market

Oliver Sorg moves on

Sturm Graz pay $510.0K, 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.

Market

Rotherham United watching Saliou Sané

The interest is real enough to have reached print. SV Ried have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Evan Eghosa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Evan Eghosa commits to SV Ried for another 4 years.

Squad

Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yusuf Maart 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.

Match

Yusuf Maart sends SV Ried past Mattersburg

It finished 1‑0, and it was Yusuf Maart’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SV Ried.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Yusuf Maart at his very best

Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SV Ried.

In brief

3 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

$510.0K settles it between the clubs for Oliver Sorg

SV Ried have accepted the money. What Sturm Graz do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market

Ivan Božić says no to Leixões

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ivan Božić had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Business is business: Matteo Bignetti goes

Hamburger SV paid $2.6M and Sturm Graz took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Sturm Graz turn down Wolfsberger AC for Filip Rózga

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Rostov watching Leon Grgić

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sturm Graz have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Seedy Jatta 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 Sturm Graz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Sturm Graz make their move for Philipp Maybach

$44.0K on the table at Austria 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.

Squad

Words at Sturm Graz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Otar Kiteishvili 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.

Transfer targets

Altach tell Sturm Graz: Benedikt Zech is not for sale

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.

In brief