The Rapid Wien Chronicle
Match5 Jul 2027
Rapid Wien up to position 2
36 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market5 Jul 2027
Martin Ndzie is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rapid Wien is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market5 Jul 2027
Laurenz Orgler puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rapid Wien, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A late step up for Ola Brynhildsen
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Marko Junuzovic is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 15 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Petter Nosa Dahl 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 Rapid Wien hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
In brief
- Squad Words at Rapid Wien training over how hard people work
- Squad Matthias Seidl in a row with a teammate
- Market The Andrija Radulović conversation is coming
- Boardroom Rapid Wien sign 10 boys into the academy