Marked for Marcel Posch
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Stefan Kalajdzic: that is not what I was promised
“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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market25 Jan 2027
The fee is $670.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Rapid Wien drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Marcel Posch has left for Wolfsberger AC in a $87.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Peter Tschernegg 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Donis Avdijaj damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Adama Dramé 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 Wolfsberger AC can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wolfsberger AC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Jan 2027
15 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $250.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Mattersburg drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Peter Tschernegg 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Quintijn Steelant, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Heinz Trimmel and Admira Wacker agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Marcel Posch: that is not what I was promised
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Valentino Ilsanker 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Daniel Thorstensen is living that version at Admira Wacker, and it tends to show in the first month.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑4 to Austria Wien, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Rapid Wien for Konrad Lazaro 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Konrad Lazaro and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Konrad 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Guido Weimann 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.