Marked for Wolfgang Schlager
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Upbeat
Match5 Sep 2026
5‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Markus Trimmel takes the afternoon — 8.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Markus Trimmel provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Sep 2026
Position 3 and 12 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market7 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Admira Wacker, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
SV Ried come back empty-handed
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Admira Wacker did not have in the autumn.
Market7 Sep 2026
Florian Prass has left for Grodig in a $560.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 60. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Mattersburg, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Austria Wien for Markus Trimmel 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Admira Wacker can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Admira Wacker have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Admira Wacker do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mattersburg pay $160.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Peter Haring 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 61. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thomas Laimer 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
Xaver Weimann 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“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.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Lugano for Konrad Dragovic 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Peter Fuchs 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 Admira Wacker this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Peter Fuchs at his very best
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Admira Wacker.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Admira Wacker
6 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Cican Stanković dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Arnautovic and Admira Wacker agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match15 Aug 2026
It needed Peter Fuchs to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Altach, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market17 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Konrad Wimmer has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Admira Wacker.