David Wimmer

Goalkeeper - Mattersburg
6 Mar 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for David Wimmer

29 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Guido Schlager

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

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Julian Lainer 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

Ziad El Sheiwi 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.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Peter Arnautovic damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 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.

Match

Mattersburg are in real trouble now

Position 8, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Konrad Wimmer 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 The request is on a desk at Mattersburg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from David Wimmer

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Markus Arnautovic

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Florent Hajdini gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Florent Hajdini has just signed for Mattersburg, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Moreno 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Mattersburg

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mattersburg can tell you which week it ends in.

Match

Sturm Graz take the points off Mattersburg

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

13 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Peter Arnautovic

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

Squad

A fracture rules Konrad Laimer out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mattersburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Julian Lainer 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.

The terraces

Fear has settled over Mattersburg

Position 8, 10 points, and a crowd that arrives already braced. Relegation seasons are lost in exactly this atmosphere, and everybody who has lived through one recognises it immediately.

Squad

David Wimmer keeps Mattersburg in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Julian Lainer 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.

Match

SV Ried take the points off Mattersburg

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Markus Arnautovic keeps on missing

Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Player ratings

The one thing Konrad Wimmer could not do

Shots: 4, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

6 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Konrad Laimer breaks a bone — 65 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Mattersburg

0‑3 against Wolfsberger AC, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Mattersburg

Position 8 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

David Lazaro asks to leave Mattersburg

“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

Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Moreno 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.

Squad

No hiding place for David Wimmer

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Mattersburg

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Mattersburg

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings

The one thing Markus Arnautovic could not do

Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

4 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Markus Alaba sold, and an era ends

$1.7M from Mainz 05 for Markus Alaba. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Squad

Konrad Laimer breaks a bone — 79 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Mattersburg throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with SV Ried the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Mattersburg will enjoy reviewing.

Market

Mattersburg turn down Grodig for David Wimmer

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

Player ratings

A brace, and Markus Arnautovic takes the afternoon — 8.61

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Markus Arnautovic provided it, and the 8.61 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Marcel Ilsanker asks to leave Mattersburg

“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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.7M sale of Markus Alaba

He is going to Mainz 05, the club has $1.7M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Konrad Laimer 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.

Market

Business is business: Kevin Posch goes

Austria Wien paid $570.0K and Mattersburg took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief