The Mattersburg Sentinel
Market10 Jul 2028
Yann Massombo 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 Mattersburg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Jul 2028
The step up is real for Elijah Briscoe
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Mattersburg
Sandro Ingolitsch was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kofi Schulz 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
One of our own: Thomas Prass joins the Mattersburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Prass is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Jul 2028
Mattersburg promote Sebastian Lindner from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastian Lindner 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.
Market10 Jul 2028
Mattersburg promote Gernot Schlager from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gernot Schlager 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Juan Sebastián Pérez wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Mattersburg know it.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Dominik Trimmel knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dominik Trimmel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Match Mattersburg have something to play for
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Alexander Lindner
- Boardroom Mattersburg keep producing them