The Mattersburg Sentinel
Match12 Jun 2028
Mattersburg are in real trouble now
Position 10, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Thomas Posch stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Thomas Posch and Mattersburg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marcel Arnautovic 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.
Market12 Jun 2028
Pianese are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Mattersburg will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad12 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Jelle van der Heyden
“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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Gonçalo Monteiro 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.
In brief
- Market No place for Jordan Quispe in the plan
- Market Martin Wimmer leaves for nothing
- Market Thomas Prass leaves for nothing