Marked for Michael Onisiwo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Dominik Hinteregger 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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“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 25 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Onisiwo, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The new deal changes things for Jakob Schöller
Wages are the one subject a dressing room never discusses and always knows. Jakob Schöller has signed terms at Admira Wacker that will be quietly noted by everybody who trains beside him.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Jakob Schöller knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jakob Schöller trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
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 remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Admira Wacker may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Dominik Hinteregger 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.
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Uneasy
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
Aleksey Kalinichev 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 Dec 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Dominik Hinteregger 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
It finished 1‑0, and it was Marcel Schlager’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Admira Wacker.
Squad23 Nov 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Admira Wacker had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad23 Nov 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Admira Wacker's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Admira Wacker has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
No sign of nerves from Jacob Peter Hödl at 19 — 8.20
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jacob Peter Hödl did not need any: 8.20, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dominik Hinteregger 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
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksey Kalinichev 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
At 19 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.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Admira Wacker's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Admira Wacker has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Aleksey Kalinichev 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Altach, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch19 Oct 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 10 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
Loan watch21 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.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Patrick Baumgartner has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. SV Ried will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.05, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match14 Sep 2026
14 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Michael Onisiwo, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match12 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Admira Wacker have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksey Kalinichev 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Patrick Baumgartner. 2‑0 against Mattersburg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christoph Lindner 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Admira Wacker man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Patrick Baumgartner was the best thing in any of them.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 55. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Philipp Wober at 17 — 7.74
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Philipp Wober did not need any: 7.74, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match5 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Admira Wacker have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Aleksey Kalinichev 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 17 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Grodig, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.81 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Admira Wacker had the best player on the pitch.
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Upbeat
Match26 Aug 2026
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Thomas Lazaro decided nobody was going anywhere. Mattersburg had no time left to answer.
Market31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Dominik Hinteregger, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04
A mark of 8.04 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dominik Hinteregger 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 terraces31 Aug 2026
At 19 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.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Bayer Leverkusen for Dominik Hinteregger was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jacob Peter Hödl, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04
A mark of 8.04 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
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
2‑3 to Red Bull Salzburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Aleksey Kalinichev 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Jacob Peter Hödl 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.
Squad24 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.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Michael Lang 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Dominik Hinteregger 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.30, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Admira Wacker had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Michael Onisiwo
“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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Altach defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
At 17 years old, Wolfgang Onisiwo became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Market17 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Alexander Trimmel has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Admira Wacker.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
Market3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Aleksey Kalinichev 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 6.67, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.36, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Posch and Admira Wacker agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Admira Wacker has been clear about where Xaver Hinteregger stands, which is more than many ever get.