The Wolfsberger AC Chronicle
Market30 Jul 2029
Terms done: Nicolas Wimmer is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rapid Wien waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Wolfsberger AC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market30 Jul 2029
Tobias Gruber 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 The request is on a desk at Wolfsberger AC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market30 Jul 2029
Marco Sulzner is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wolfsberger AC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Real improvement from Maximilian Fuchs at Wolfsberger AC
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maximilian Fuchs is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Jul 2029
A falling-out at Wolfsberger AC
Thierno Ballo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Jul 2029
Graduation day at Wolfsberger AC
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Yannick Woudstra has improved at 28, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Match28 Jul 2029
Thierno Ballo’s goal not enough for Wolfsberger AC
Thierno Ballo scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Austria Wien, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Maximilian Fuchs 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.
In brief
- Boardroom 165% of the income goes out in wages at Wolfsberger AC
- Market Martin Alaba steps up from the Wolfsberger AC academy
- The dugout No hiding place for Lukas Wedl