The Grodig Courier
Boardroom28 May 2029
Pressure builds in the Grodig boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market28 May 2029
Philipp Prass 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.
Squad28 May 2029
Words exchanged at Grodig
Alexander Schwaighofer 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.
The dugout28 May 2029
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Market28 May 2029
Thomas Dragovic steps up from the Grodig academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Dragovic 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.
Market28 May 2029
One of our own: Kevin Lienhart joins the Grodig first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kevin Lienhart is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market28 May 2029
Markus Alaba steps up from the Grodig academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markus Alaba 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.
Squad28 May 2029
Andrej Lazarevic falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 May 2029
Adrien Thibaut 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 Adrien Thibaut is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Philipp Erhardt knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Adrien Thibaut
- Squad Woody Burgess is starting to belong