Gernot Arnautovic

Striker - Admira Wacker
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Gernot Arnautovic

2 Edition

The Admira Wacker Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near David Laimer

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Grodig come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Admira Wacker did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Admira Wacker sell Lukas Brandt for $3.3M

Lukas Brandt has left for SC Freiburg in a $3.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Maximilian Lazaro signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maximilian Lazaro commits to Admira Wacker for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Admira Wacker

Xaver Grillitsch 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.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Gernot Arnautovic — 6.65

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 6.65, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

No hiding place for Thomas Ulmer

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

Squad

Xaver Posch 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.

Match

Honours even between Admira Wacker and Austria Wien

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Admira Wacker Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Campobasso come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Admira Wacker did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings

David Laimer runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

SC Freiburg watching Lukas Brandt

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Admira Wacker have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tempers go at Admira Wacker

Lukas Brandt 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

Xaver Grillitsch 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 ratings

The game went through Mauro De Luca — 6.64

Marked 6.64 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match

Honours even between Admira Wacker and Wolfsberger AC

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Maximilian Lazaro knocks on the manager's door

“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.

Market

Martin Lainer is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Admira Wacker has been clear about where Martin Lainer stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief