Marked for Philipp Prass
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
The fee is $1.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. SV Ried drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Florian Wustinger is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Jun 2027
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.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Admira Wacker spend $1.3M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.3M for Kelvin Boateng, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad21 Jun 2027
At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
The fee is $340.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Grodig drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Patrick Hinteregger is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Jun 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Pedro Gomes has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Admira Wacker they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Gabriel Lukačević from Grodig for $340.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Market14 Jun 2027
Grodig pay $98.0K, 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.
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Uneasy
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Florian Schlager commits to Admira Wacker for another 3 years.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about David Lindner again, and this time the name on the line is Grodig. Admira Wacker are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Patrick Hinteregger 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Livio Milts told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Livio Milts has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Admira Wacker.
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Uneasy
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marco Sabitzer. 2‑1 against Grodig, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Admira Wacker
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Admira Wacker are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Admira Wacker heard it as anything else.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Oumar Diouf 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Stefan Wimmer
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Admira Wacker training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aarón Romero 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.96 on the card, and the Admira Wacker support went home talking about one name.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Marco Schlager will call it something else in private.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑5 to Wolfsberger AC, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oumar Diouf, and the manager let it.
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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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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.48, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market21 Sep 2026
The offer from Grodig for Dominik Lindner 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Admira Wacker have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad21 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Admira Wacker, 3‑2 the final word against SV Ried in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad21 Sep 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Admira Wacker
7 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gregorio Ferri 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.
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Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Mattersburg go through and Admira Wacker go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match29 Aug 2026
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Rapid Wien the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Admira Wacker will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad31 Aug 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.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Admira Wacker will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market31 Aug 2026
Grodig pay $280.0K, 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.
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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Red Bull Salzburg, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Gernot Lienhart again, and this time the name on the line is Lecco. Admira Wacker are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Admira Wacker
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Grillitsch and Admira Wacker agree another 3 years.
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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 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $5.4M sale of Andreas Lindner
He is going to Union Berlin, the club has $5.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market17 Aug 2026
Union Berlin paid $5.4M and Admira Wacker took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Squad17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Kalajdzic and Admira Wacker agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match15 Aug 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Altach defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: RB Leipzig have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sebastian Wimmer. The answer from Admira Wacker has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sebastian Wimmer wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Admira Wacker hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sebastian Wimmer. 5‑3 against Wolfsberger AC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Match1 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Admira Wacker and Wolfsberger AC, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad3 Aug 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 22 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.