The Mattersburg Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
The unthinkable, invoiced: Alexander Arnautovic sold
Red Bull Salzburg arrived with $4.3M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Prass
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mattersburg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match8 Aug 2026
No mercy from Mattersburg
Grodig will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Mattersburg were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andreas Lindner takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
A $4.3M sale, and a town that did not want it
Alexander Arnautovic has gone, the accounts have $4.3M 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Raphael Wimmer asks to leave Mattersburg
“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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mattersburg baulk at the price for Marco Tilio
Rapid Wien wanted more than $1.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
Grodig 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Felix Bergmann signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Felix Bergmann commits to Mattersburg for another 4 years.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Mattersburg
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Martin Prass
- Player ratings Andreas Lindner in the eights