Thomas Lindner

Striker - Metta/LU
30 Apr 2028
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90 Edition

The Metta/LU Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Apr 2028

Alvis Sorokins breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Age has not caught Shaxzod Shaymanov yet — 8.03

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Metta/LU

Shaxzod Shaymanov 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 Apr 2028

Words at Metta/LU training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arseniy Galushko 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.

Squad17 Apr 2028

The manager makes an example of Sindre Mauritz-Hansen

“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.

Match15 Apr 2028

Shaxzod Shaymanov sends Metta/LU past Ventspils

It finished 1‑0, and it was Shaxzod Shaymanov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Metta/LU.

In brief

Back issues
89 Edition

The Metta/LU Gazette

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 Apr 2028

Giovanni Aronica sends Metta/LU through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Giovanni Aronica obliged against Liepaja. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Metta/LU.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Alvis Sorokins breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces10 Apr 2028

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 10 of the 30 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Match10 Apr 2028

Metta/LU are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 5 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Shaxzod Shaymanov 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 Metta/LU this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words at Metta/LU training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sindre Mauritz-Hansen 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.

Match8 Apr 2028

A bad afternoon for Metta/LU against Skonto

1‑2 to Skonto, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The terraces10 Apr 2028

Metta/LU supporters have found a favourite in Giovanni Aronica

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Giovanni Aronica 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.

Squad10 Apr 2028

No hiding place for Shaxzod Shaymanov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shaxzod Shaymanov, and the manager let it.

In brief

71 Edition

The Metta/LU Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad6 Dec 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcis Oss

107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Metta/LU lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A move Thomas Lindner 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. Thomas Lindner is living that version at Metta/LU, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market6 Dec 2027

Only the photograph left for Rūdolfs Kļavinskis

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rūdolfs Kļavinskis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Metta/LU the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Thomas Lindner signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thomas Lindner commits to Metta/LU for another 4 years.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Metta/LU

Shaxzod Shaymanov 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.

Market6 Dec 2027

Nobody at Metta/LU has picked up the phone to Thomas Lindner

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

55 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Aug 2027

A fracture rules Florian Arnautovic out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mattersburg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Elias Lorenz says Mattersburg went back on their word

“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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Mattersburg

Ignazio Mazza 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Raf van de Riet stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Raf van de Riet and Mattersburg agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Markus Alaba was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.68. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Match14 Aug 2027

Mattersburg get the job done against Grodig

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 ratings16 Aug 2027

Ahmet Muhamedbegović shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market16 Aug 2027

Marcos Ferreira arrives on loan

Mattersburg have taken Marcos Ferreira on loan from Espanyol — cover where cover was needed.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Michael Baumgartner runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief