Marked for Patrick Posch
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Dec 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Admira Wacker have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lukas Gugganig 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.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
Mario Maroto had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Wolfsberger AC were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Patrick Posch at 21 — 8.55
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Patrick Posch did not need any: 8.55, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Raphael Wimmer and Admira Wacker agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“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 Admira Wacker, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
133% of the income goes out in wages at Admira Wacker
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Christoph Ochrana 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against SV Ried, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Raphael Dragovic at 21 — 9.39
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Raphael Dragovic did not need any: 9.39, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marco Laimer, 33, rolls back the years — 7.87
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match19 Sep 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Dominik Junuzovic for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Admira Wacker will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 21, Raphael Dragovic is already the best thing here
An average of 7.00 in a first team he is several years too young for. Admira Wacker have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Mario Maroto at his very best
Marked 9.00. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Admira Wacker.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Mario Maroto has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Austria Wien for Marco Laimer 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Thomas Hinteregger and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Red Bull Salzburg pay $590.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick Posch, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Austria Wien leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Admira Wacker, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sebastian Junuzovic has his answer from Admira Wacker; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Legia have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Patrick Posch. The answer from Admira Wacker has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Wolfsberger AC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Valentino Sabitzer 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.