Marked for David Arnautovic
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” David Arnautovic and Admira Wacker agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Amine Karraoui
“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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Mattersburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Brayan Benítez
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
6 new faces, and Admira Wacker are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Rapid Wien for David Arnautovic 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A one-man rearguard from Marco Posch
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Admira Wacker's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Admira Wacker has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Admira Wacker
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market24 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Marco Lainer has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Admira Wacker.
Market24 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at Admira Wacker
Marc Castells arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
From our football correspondent
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.