Marked for Patrick Wimmer
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick Laimer
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Admira Wacker lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Oumar Diouf did the work nobody counts — 6.68
10 combined actions and 6.68. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad23 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
7.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Admira Wacker had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Admira Wacker
12 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.
Loan watch23 Nov 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.” 2 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Match21 Nov 2026
A 1‑1 draw with SV Ried leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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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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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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
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
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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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marco Sabitzer in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee is $310.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Altach drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad7 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.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Grodig made Admira Wacker work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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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.