Florian Alaba

Central Midfielder - Retired
1 Oct 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Florian Alaba

88 Edition

The Altach Courier

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

46 days out for Patrick Junuzovic after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Altach will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Tempers go at Altach

Benjamin Böckle 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.

Squad

Words at Altach training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martin Hinteregger 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 watch

Salif Tietietta wants to come home

“I did not go to Wolfsberger AC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Altach and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Squad

The armband comes off Mike-Steven Bähre

Altach will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yehider Ibargüen

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yehider Ibargüen, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
77 Edition

The Altach Courier

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Red Bull Salzburg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Altach did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Terms done: Paul Piffer is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Mattersburg waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Altach is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The terraces

A $930.0K sale, and a town that did not want it

Erkin Yalcin has gone, the accounts have $930.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Léiner Cuesta puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Altach, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Dominik Schön: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Altach have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Business is business: Erkin Yalcin goes

Austria Wien paid $930.0K and Altach took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Altach

Benjamin Böckle and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Florian Alaba would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Florian Alaba is living that version at Altach, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Martin Hinteregger 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.

In brief