Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcel Posch will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Admira Wacker the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
“I watch every Admira Wacker game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Grodig runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Admira Wacker would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
“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.
The deal that would have taken Marcel Junuzovic to Altach has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Admira Wacker with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
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.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Admira Wacker have had the benefit of it.
Mario García 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.
“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 The request is on a desk at Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
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.
Marked 8.46 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Julian Lainer. 2‑1 against Altach, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Marked 8.74 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Famalicao will make the call about Valentino Lazaro this week. Admira Wacker have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Peter Onisiwo and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Marcel Junuzovic has his answer from Admira Wacker; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
The terracesSupporters make their feelings known about Marco Lazaro