The Grodig Courier
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Fee done, terms next for Jonas Auer
Grodig and Rapid Wien have settled on $1.6M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market5 Jul 2027
Lukas Hiermann 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 Grodig can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jul 2027
One of our own: David Trimmel joins the Grodig first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Trimmel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Jul 2027
Markus Onisiwo steps up from the Grodig academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markus Onisiwo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market5 Jul 2027
Grodig promote Marko Arnautovic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marko Arnautovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Julian Aumayr stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Julian Aumayr and Grodig agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Grodig
5 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Grodig sign 6 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Lukas Hiermann
“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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Grodig training over how hard people work
- Squad Thomas Niedermüller loses the armband
- The dugout Thomas Niedermüller asks for a word with the manager