The SV Ried Herald
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 10 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at SV Ried 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Alan Duré gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alan Duré has just signed for SV Ried, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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 targets1 Feb 2027
Door shut on Yaya Sanogo
SV Ried asked and Bradford City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market1 Feb 2027
Eyes on Anteo Fetahu again
The phone has started ringing about Anteo Fetahu again, and this time the name on the line is Westerlo. SV Ried are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at SV Ried training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Pomer 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
9 new faces, and SV Ried are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Martin Rasner gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Martin Rasner's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
In brief
- Market Marlon Mustapha linked with a move away
- The dugout Conrad Scholl gets picked when it counts
- The dugout A door opens for Michael Sollbauer