The Mattersburg Sentinel
Squad5 May 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tom van den Bos
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mattersburg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom5 May 2031
Christoph Schlager has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Mattersburg can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad5 May 2031
Michael Lang signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michael Lang and Mattersburg agree another 2 years.
Squad5 May 2031
Wolfgang Hinteregger 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.
Squad5 May 2031
Dominik Onisiwo 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.
Boardroom5 May 2031
$4.7M taken back off the Mattersburg table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
In brief
- Market Mattersburg put Tommaso Longo up for sale
- Market Konrad Baumgartner leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Mattersburg were not finished after all