The Mattersburg Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Markus Arnautovic hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mattersburg say no — this time
The offer from Sochaux for Julian Dragovic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market3 Aug 2026
Lazio watching Alexander Dragovic
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mattersburg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alexander Dragovic 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 Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Schubert 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Stefan Trimmel runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexander Dragovic
“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 terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Marco Hinteregger
At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nothing got past Gernot Weimann
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- Squad Philipp Arnautovic signs on for more
- Player ratings Julian Dragovic leaves them behind him
- Market No place for Andreas Lienhart in the plan