Marked for Andreas Lindner
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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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Andreas Lindner would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Andreas Lindner is living that version at Union Berlin, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Rani Khedira 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
A squad is not eleven players and a wish. Andreas Lindner arrives from Admira Wacker to make the number up properly, and the value of that will be argued about in March rather than today.
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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.