Marked for Marcel Prass
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Dec 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Florian Baumgartner wants continental football; whether Admira Wacker can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Sebastiano Schiavone 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 Dec 2026
Marcel Prass 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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Admira Wacker
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Admira Wacker are no longer polite ones.
Match2 Nov 2026
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Admira Wacker hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ziad El Sheiwi 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Markus Alaba scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Rapid Wien, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marcel Prass 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.
Market2 Nov 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 watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Admira Wacker, and 6 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Maximiliano Planté will call it something else in private.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match17 Oct 2026
8 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Admira Wacker can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ziad El Sheiwi 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Baumgartner 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 55. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Admira Wacker lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Sep 2026
2 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
He is going to Sturm Graz, the club has $1.1M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee is $260.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Altach drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sebastiano Schiavone 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Florian Baumgartner 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.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Michael Wober goes
Fenerbahce paid $18.3M 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Admira Wacker hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Florian Baumgartner and Admira Wacker agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
1‑2 to Austria Wien, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marco Posch 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcel 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.
Loan watch10 Aug 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.