The Mattersburg Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Mattersburg sell their best player to Hamburger SV
$3.6M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
SV Ried come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mattersburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $3.6M sale of Sebastian Posch
He is going to Hamburger SV, the club has $3.6M 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Thomas Trimmel
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $770.0K for Filip Rózga
Mattersburg have gone to Sturm Graz with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Heinz Ilsanker stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Heinz Ilsanker and Mattersburg agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marko Grillitsch 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 Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Florian Arnautovic again
The phone has started ringing about Florian Arnautovic again, and this time the name on the line is Grodig. Mattersburg are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Heinz Ilsanker 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Door shut on Anrie Chase
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Andreas Laimer
- Match Mattersburg find a way past Grodig