The Mattersburg Sentinel
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Florian Kalajdzic
Successful dribbles: 52. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The knee: Maximilian Arnautovic out for 26 days
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mattersburg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market24 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Mattersburg agree $1.1M for Abdoulaye Kanté
The clubs have shaken hands with Austria Wien; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market24 Aug 2026
Peter Arnautovic hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marco Weimann 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No deal for Yusuf Demir at that price
Mattersburg offered $200.0K; Rapid Wien said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Werder Bremen tell Mattersburg: Salim Musah is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Scherzer
“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.
In brief
- Match Mattersburg come up short against SV Ried
- Squad A row about effort at Mattersburg
- The dugout Markus Hinteregger faces the questions