Marked for Philipp Onisiwo
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 May 2031
Every point is an argument now for Admira Wacker
Position 9 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad12 May 2031
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.
Squad12 May 2031
Martin Hinteregger 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.
Squad12 May 2031
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market12 May 2031
He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market12 May 2031
He is 17, and nobody at Admira Wacker signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Back issues
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Crisis
Boardroom5 May 2031
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Valentino Kalajdzic has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad5 May 2031
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Harry Clifton commits to Admira Wacker for another 2 years.
Squad5 May 2031
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 May 2031
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Onisiwo 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.
Squad5 May 2031
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Marko Ulmer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom5 May 2031
$2.2M taken back off the Admira Wacker 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.
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Crisis
Match14 Apr 2031
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad14 Apr 2031
Michael Lainer 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 Apr 2031
Philipp 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.
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Crisis
The terraces24 Mar 2031
The mood at Admira Wacker has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Market24 Mar 2031
Carlos Ayasta has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Admira Wacker they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Mar 2031
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
Crisis
Squad10 Mar 2031
Philipp Onisiwo 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 Mar 2031
“The easiest signature of my career.” Philipp Prass and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martin Hinteregger 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
Squad10 Feb 2031
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Admira Wacker may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad10 Feb 2031
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.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp Onisiwo 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.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Layton Love has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Admira Wacker will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market10 Feb 2031
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Admira Wacker know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market10 Feb 2031
The shop window has Nino Lesjak in it
Admira Wacker have let the market know Nino Lesjak can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Match20 Jan 2031
Position 9, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Layton Love breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad20 Jan 2031
Harry Clifton 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.