Michael Lindner

Left Wingback - Stripfing
25 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Michael Lindner

6 Edition

The Stripfing Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Konrad Trimmel hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stripfing can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Stripfing close the window on a squad of their own making

14 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Altach come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Stripfing did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stripfing

William Mikelbrencis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Stripfing to Filip Rózga

The clock did what Sturm Graz would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

A row about effort at Stripfing

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sandro Ingolitsch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Ferencvaros tell Stripfing: Philippe Rommens is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Peter Tschernegg

“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.

Squad

The month belongs to Mario Barbieri

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Stripfing have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Stripfing Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Stripfing out of the cup

First Vienna ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Transfer targets

$1.2M settles it between the clubs for Filip Rózga

Sturm Graz have accepted the money. What Stripfing do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Dominik Wober at 21 — 7.93

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dominik Wober did not need any: 7.93, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Stripfing say no — this time

The offer from Napredak for Konrad Trimmel 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.

Market

Michael Lindner asks to leave Stripfing

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Austria Wien tell Stripfing: Noah Botic is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Paul Peters is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Stripfing

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stefan Onisiwo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Konrad Trimmel beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief