Marked for Marco Meyer
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 0‑3 beating by Rapid Wien was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market2 Nov 2026
Marco Meyer hands in a written request
“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.
Match2 Nov 2026
Position 8, 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
7 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andreas Lienhart 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Marcel Grillitsch has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Admira Wacker have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Peter Haring 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 Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Marco Knaller
“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.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
2‑5 to Red Bull Salzburg, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match24 Oct 2026
Marco Meyer had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Red Bull Salzburg were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Andreas Lienhart 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Peter Haring 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.
Squad26 Oct 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Kevin Arnautovic ran the middle of the pitch — 7.40
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 7.40, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Beaten 5 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. 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
A 1‑4 beating by Sturm Graz was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market28 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.
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christoph 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.
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Steady
Match7 Sep 2026
Position 8, 4 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Lukas Lienhart at 20 — 8.07
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lukas Lienhart did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Andreas Lienhart 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
Grodig made Admira Wacker work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Christoph 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Peter Haring gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kevin Arnautovic 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.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig pay $9.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kevin Arnautovic, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Zurich have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marco Meyer. The answer from Admira Wacker has not changed — yet.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 paid $3.6M 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.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Aug 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.