Marked for Valentino Ulmer
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Admira Wacker came through the finding-out well against Willem II.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Admira Wacker do not lose
7 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Gernot Wober 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Benjamin Kanurić 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.
Squad5 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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The run at home goes on for Admira Wacker
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Gernot Wober
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Gernot Wober has come out of that comparison in the side, and Admira Wacker have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 65. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Philipp 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bryan Van Den Bogaert 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
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Admira Wacker game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Red Bull Salzburg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Mattersburg came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market14 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Stefan Lindner leaves Admira Wacker the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Ravenna for Dejan Posch 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.
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
Gernot Wober 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Markus Schlager 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Konrad Prass again, and this time the name on the line is Rapid Wien. Admira Wacker are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.73 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Admira Wacker
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michael Laimer, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Benjamin Kanurić 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. Benjamin Kanurić is living that version at Admira Wacker, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gernot Wober 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Markus Schlager 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Grodig paid $170.0K 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Admira Wacker, 1‑0 the final word against Altach in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Young Boys 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
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
Gernot Wober 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Markus Schlager 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-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.
Squad3 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.