Florian Prass

Central Defender - Mattersburg
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Florian Prass

12 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules André Ceitil out for 96 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.

Squad

Oliver Sorg says Mattersburg went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Markus Lazaro 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

Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dino Arslanagić 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 ratings

Lukas Alaba 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.

Match

Romeo Vučić’s goal not enough for Mattersburg

Romeo Vučić scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Austria Wien, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Michael Fuchs moves on

Mainz 05 pay $6.0M, 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.

Market

Mattersburg turn down Grodig for Florian Sabitzer

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

Squad

Lukas Alaba 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.

Squad

Dino Arslanagić 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Lukas Alaba

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

Match

Austria Wien take the points off Mattersburg

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

Squad

Peter Grillitsch dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market

No place for Philipp Dragovic in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Philipp Dragovic has his answer from Mattersburg; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market

Mattersburg bring in an old head

Dino Arslanagić is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

1 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A day Thomas Lindner will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market

Mattersburg turn down Borussia Dortmund for Thomas Lindner

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

Market

Thomas Lindner raises the bar for Mattersburg

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Mattersburg heard it as anything else.

Squad

Martin Lazaro 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.

Match

Thomas Lindner among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Thomas Lindner on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Mattersburg and Rapid Wien.

Squad

Lukas Wimmer stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lukas Wimmer and Mattersburg agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Florian Prass 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.

Market

Grodig join the queue for Florian Sabitzer

Add another name to the list: Grodig have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Florian Sabitzer. The answer from Mattersburg has not changed — yet.

Match

Mattersburg and Rapid Wien take a point apiece

It finished 4‑4, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief