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Uneasy
Squad15 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Konrad Grillitsch 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick 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.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Patrick Laimer damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gernot Lienhart 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
“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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market16 Nov 2026
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Admira Wacker money.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Admira Wacker is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market12 Oct 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Konrad Grillitsch 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Oct 2026
Austria Wien left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Admira Wacker game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rapid Wien runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zinho Vanaken and Admira Wacker agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gregorio Ferri: 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.” Admira Wacker have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Konrad Grillitsch 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gernot Lienhart 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Rapid Wien to sit and watch. I want to come back to Admira Wacker and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market28 Sep 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Admira Wacker have gone and got theirs early.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Oumar Diouf takes the afternoon — 8.04
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oumar Diouf provided it, and the 8.04 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Patrick Wimmer reports back to Admira Wacker with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Oumar Diouf’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Admira Wacker.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gernot Lienhart 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Oumar Diouf has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
$37.1M from Chelsea for Sebastian Wimmer. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market10 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker sell a favourite for $37.1M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Sebastian Wimmer was one of the reasons people came, and $37.1M does not replace that by itself.
Market10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Konrad Grillitsch commits to Admira Wacker for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Konrad Grillitsch 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Andreas Weimann
“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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Austria Wien left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.