Philipp Maybach

Defensive Midfielder - Grodig
24 Apr 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Philipp Maybach

38 Edition

The Austria Wien Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sofian Bouzian

14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Austria Wien lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Johannes Handl asks to leave Austria Wien

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Austria Wien

Abubakr Barry 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.

In brief

Back issues
34 Edition

The Austria Wien Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Manfred Fischer lights up a European night for Austria Wien

1‑1 against Slavia Prague, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Manfred Fischer was at the centre of the description.

Squad

Samuel Sahin-Radlinger decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Squad

Sofian Bouzian damages knee ligaments — 49 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 49 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.

Market

Johannes Handl asks to leave Austria Wien

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tochukwu Michael: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Austria Wien have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

The wait goes on for Austria Wien

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Austria Wien

Abubakr Barry 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Manfred Fischer

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Lee Tae-Suk misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

In brief

30 Edition

The Austria Wien Post

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Sofian Bouzian damages knee ligaments — 79 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 79 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Austria Wien

Abubakr Barry 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.

Squad

Words at Austria Wien training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinhold Ranftl 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.

In brief

25 Edition

The Grodig Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Robert Bencun breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Daniel Leitz puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Grodig, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Grodig

Ricard Artero 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.

In brief