The Stripfing Post
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Stripfing write off $152.4K on Bernd Gschweidl
He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $152.4K of what Stripfing paid for Bernd Gschweidl is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.
Market5 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Tom Meyer
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tom Meyer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stripfing the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 8 gone
That is the business done at Stripfing until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A move Ermin Mahmić would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ermin Mahmić is living that version at Stripfing, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market5 Feb 2029
Kevin Weimann wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Stripfing hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Luca Unbehaun 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 Stripfing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market5 Feb 2029
Business is business: Nino Zonneveld goes
Red Bull Salzburg paid $650.0K and Stripfing took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A row about effort at Stripfing
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Márk Kovácsréti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch5 Feb 2029
Brayan Marín has seen enough of WSG Tirol
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Stripfing, and 6 appearances in 23 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- The dugout Marco Laimer left out for the big one
- Boardroom Wages swallow 106% of the Stripfing income
- Squad Luis Suazo signs on for more