Thomas Lienhart

Striker - Al-Batin U20
18 Sep 2028
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The Al-Batin Herald

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market13 Mar 2028

Bader Nasser puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Al-Batin, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Al-Batin

Simon Falette 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.

Squad13 Mar 2028

A move Nikolaj Kirckhoff 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. Nikolaj Kirckhoff is living that version at Al-Batin, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Bader Nasser 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.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Mazyad Freeh 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.

Market13 Mar 2028

Al-Batin buy the years ahead of Nikolaj Kirckhoff

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

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The Mattersburg Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Sep 2027

Dominik Laimer breaks a bone — 103 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad6 Sep 2027

A one-man rearguard from Marcos Ferreira

There were 7 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.

Match6 Sep 2027

Mattersburg up to position 3

11 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Peter Hinteregger, 33, rolls back the years — 7.85

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad6 Sep 2027

David Skubl keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mattersburg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Dominik Laimer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dominik Laimer and Mattersburg agree another 2 years.

Match4 Sep 2027

Whatever happens, Mattersburg do not lose

6 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.

Player ratings6 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Markus Alaba

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match4 Sep 2027

Honours even between Mattersburg and Sturm Graz

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief