The Mattersburg Sentinel
Market12 Apr 2027
Florian Lazaro 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 Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Valentino Prass signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Valentino Prass and Mattersburg agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Mattersburg
Oscar Naasei 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Lazaro 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
Guido Weimann knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mattersburg, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Maximilian Lienhart gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Maximilian Lienhart is on it.
Market12 Apr 2027
The Heinz Fuchs question follows Mattersburg around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Heinz Fuchs’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Patrick Touray has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Patrick Touray has written the date down.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A wage question at Mattersburg
Marco Weimann has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
- Market Yannick Häringer placed on the list
- The dugout The manager comes out for Gernot Weimann