The Sturm Graz Sentinel
The terraces26 Apr 2027
Supporters organise against the Sturm Graz board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Sturm Graz
Noah Botic 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Sturm Graz lose Lukas Baumgartner
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Sturm Graz
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Richard Sukuta-Pasu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
Jacob Peter Hödl wants to come home
“I did not go to Wolfsberger AC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sturm Graz and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Axel Kayombo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Axel Kayombo, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The manager makes Sebastian Jacob a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sturm Graz. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market26 Apr 2027
The Niklas Geyrhofer story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Niklas Geyrhofer signs something — a contract at Sturm Graz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Axel Kayombo: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Sturm Graz will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
- The dugout Laurenz Orgler knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Jean Marcelin