Marked for Marco Baumgartner
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Admira Wacker can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A move Tomás Cruz would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Tomás Cruz is living that version at Admira Wacker, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market4 Jan 2027
Rapid Wien 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Grodig to sit and watch. I want to come back to Admira Wacker and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 20 matches say the rest.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Marcel Onisiwo out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Admira Wacker will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Admira Wacker, and 0 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Match21 Nov 2026
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.99, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Admira Wacker do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.99 on the card, and the Admira Wacker support went home talking about one name.
Match21 Nov 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad23 Nov 2026
At 18 years old, Florian Trimmel became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
Valentino Prass had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Mattersburg were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Match14 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Admira Wacker
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Admira Wacker are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to François-Joseph Sollacaro, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jakob Schöller 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Rapid Wien to sit and watch. I want to come back to Admira Wacker and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The team sheet said everything about Patrick Obermüller
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Patrick Obermüller.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Jakob Schöller at 20 — 7.66
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jakob Schöller did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Admira Wacker, another week without a signature from Philipp Pomer.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Admira Wacker, and 5 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Wolfgang Wimmer
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Wolfgang Wimmer has come out of that comparison in the side, and Admira Wacker have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dominik Ilsanker, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
10 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Match31 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Admira Wacker?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Rapid Wien? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Gernot Grillitsch has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Baumgartner 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Robert Bencun
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A mark of 7.50, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match24 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Red Bull Salzburg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Admira Wacker
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Admira Wacker are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Admira Wacker can tell you which week it ends in.
Match10 Oct 2026
Austria Wien left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Admira Wacker game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rapid Wien runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Obermüller trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Admira Wacker are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A last season at home is what Pedro Mendes is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
4.71 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jakob Schöller 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Sturm Graz will be the happier side with the point.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Julian Lainer 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.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Rapid Wien to sit and watch. I want to come back to Admira Wacker and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Admira Wacker are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maximilian Lazaro commits to Admira Wacker for another 3 years.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.68 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Sep 2026
François-Joseph Sollacaro 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Baumgartner 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Mendes, and the manager let it.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Schlager and Admira Wacker agree another 3 years.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Admira Wacker game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rapid Wien runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
Guido Hinteregger damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.
Match7 Sep 2026
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match5 Sep 2026
There were 86 minutes on the clock and Grodig had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Admira Wacker did not stop to explain themselves.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Gernot Grillitsch to Zurich 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Mattersburg 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Admira Wacker, 3‑2 the final word against Grodig in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match5 Sep 2026
Admira Wacker are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Jakob Schöller returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Jakob Schöller is a Admira Wacker player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Valentino Prass’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Admira Wacker.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker spend $1.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.1M for Jakob Schöller, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market17 Aug 2026
Rapid Wien 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market17 Aug 2026
Casertana are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Admira Wacker will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market17 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dejan Grillitsch commits to Admira Wacker for another 3 years.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
RC Lens paid $10.8M and Admira Wacker took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valentino Prass commits to Admira Wacker for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marco Baumgartner 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valentino Prass 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.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: RC Lens have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Heinz Grillitsch. The answer from Admira Wacker has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Heinz Grillitsch 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.