Aleksa Ilić

Central Defender - Austria Wien
29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Aleksa Ilić

2 Edition

The Austria Wien Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Austria Wien turn down Blau-Weiß Linz for Manfred Fischer

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kevin Sessa

Austria Wien asked and Hertha BSC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Austria Wien go back to the board over Jakob Knollmüller

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $100.0K — a club that wants Jakob Knollmüller enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Johannes Eggestein signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Johannes Eggestein commits to Austria Wien for another 4 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Austria Wien

Johannes Eggestein 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 targets

An offer of $96.0K for Jakob Knollmüller

Austria Wien have gone to Blau-Weiß Linz 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Austria Wien walk away from Juri Kirchmayr

$67.0K was the most the club would pay and Grazer AK 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Austria Wien

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksa Ilić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Manprit Sarkaria

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Manprit Sarkaria, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
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The Austria Wien Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Door shut on Luca Kerber

Austria Wien asked and Heidenheim said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Reinhold Ranftl stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Reinhold Ranftl and Austria Wien agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Austria Wien

Johannes Eggestein and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Eyes on Romeo Vučić again

The phone has started ringing about Romeo Vučić again, and this time the name on the line is First Vienna. Austria Wien are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Noah Botic wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Austria Wien can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Aleksa Ilić 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.

Match

Johannes Eggestein’s goal not enough for Austria Wien

Johannes Eggestein scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Grazer AK, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout

No hiding place for Samuel Sahin-Radlinger

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Sahin-Radlinger, and the manager let it.

Market

Still no ink between Austria Wien and Manfred Fischer

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Austria Wien, another week without a signature from Manfred Fischer.

In brief