Lukas Baumgartner

Striker - LASK U18
12 May 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Lukas Baumgartner

51 Edition

The LASK Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Mikołaj Sawicki is a medical away from LASK

The deal with Austria Wien is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Tempers go at LASK

Xavier Mbuyamba 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.

Transfer targets

LASK rebuffed over Thierno Ballo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wolfsberger AC have kept their man, and LASK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at LASK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrés Andrade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Lukas Baumgartner stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lukas Baumgartner and LASK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Tobias Schützenauer told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Tobias Schützenauer has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at LASK.

The dugout

Mohamed Sanogo gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mohamed Sanogo is on it.

Squad

Somebody is after Marco Grüll’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Marco Grüll suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. LASK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

Market

Samuel Adeniran linked with a move away

The name of Samuel Adeniran keeps appearing in other people's back pages. LASK say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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50 Edition

The LASK Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tobias Schützenauer has said yes to Austria Salzburg

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. LASK have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

LASK bid $2.7M for Edmund Baidoo

The offer went to Red Bull Salzburg this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Business is business: Christoph Lang goes

FAC Wien paid $2.3M and LASK took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Andrés Andrade in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at LASK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Austria Salzburg tell LASK: Florian Rieder is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

The Marco Grüll story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marco Grüll signs something — a contract at LASK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Match

LASK in the hunt for Europe

Position 5, 36 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

Market

LASK and Alexander Eckmayr are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

The manager makes Alexander Eckmayr a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at LASK. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief