Marked for Andreas Grillitsch
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Steady
Squad24 May 2027
Sebastian Bauer 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 May 2027
Xaver Onisiwo 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Dejan Onisiwo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Admira Wacker will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Mirko Kos 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Xaver Onisiwo 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Peter Haring 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.
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Crisis
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Mattersburg for Dejan Onisiwo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mirko Kos 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Xaver Onisiwo 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match22 Aug 2026
Red Bull Salzburg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Borussia Mönchengladbach arrived with $7.3M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker sell a favourite for $7.3M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Stefan Junuzovic was one of the reasons people came, and $7.3M does not replace that by itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mirko Kos 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Admira Wacker, 2‑0 the final word against Altach in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Michael Arnautovic 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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
Martin Trimmel dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dominik Prass and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Admira Wacker
Sebastian Bauer arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A debut Dejan Onisiwo will not forget — 7.23
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.23 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
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
Martin Trimmel 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
Xaver Onisiwo 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcel Kalajdzic, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Andreas Grillitsch has his answer from Admira Wacker; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings3 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.