The Mattersburg Sentinel
Transfer targets21 Jan 2030
Fabrizio Alastra is a medical away from Mattersburg
The deal with Austria Wien is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market21 Jan 2030
Esteghlal Khuzestan join the queue for Filip Rózga
Add another name to the list: Esteghlal Khuzestan have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Filip Rózga. The answer from Mattersburg has not changed — yet.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Marcel Lang 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Raphael Onisiwo 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.
Transfer targets21 Jan 2030
Door shut on Pim Bruggink
Mattersburg asked and Sturm Graz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Mattersburg lose a squad player
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout21 Jan 2030
Filip Rózga gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Filip Rózga is on it.
The dugout21 Jan 2030
A door opens for Patrick Touray
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market21 Jan 2030
The Konrad Laimer talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mattersburg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout Marcel Lang keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Cristian Falla is training like a man with a point to make