The Grodig Courier
Squad7 Feb 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Robert Völkl
136 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Grodig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Nikita Șarpe breaks a bone — 51 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Feb 2028
Adrien Thibaut 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Grodig
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Grodig is running low.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 5 gone
That is the business done at Grodig until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
The paperwork begins on Christoph Grillitsch
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Grodig have done the hard part with Admira Wacker, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Grodig
Benjamin Leneis 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.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Grodig rebuffed over Uroš Đerić
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Admira Wacker have kept their man, and Grodig go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Grodig training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shqipon Bektasi 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: David Baumgartner joins the Grodig first team
- Boardroom Grodig trim $1.7M from the budget
- The dugout Nino Lesjak gets picked when it counts