Marked for Dejan Onisiwo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match7 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Admira Wacker
Position 9 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Dejan Onisiwo has come up in conversations Admira Wacker were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Admira Wacker
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Admira Wacker are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jean Marcelin 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.
Squad7 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.
Market7 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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Mattersburg go through and Admira Wacker go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 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.
Squad31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Peter Weimann goes
Grodig paid $280.0K 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Rapid Wien, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Martin Trimmel
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Admira Wacker will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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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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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.