The LASK Courier
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
LASK bid $2.3M for Matteo Meisl
The offer went to Admira Wacker 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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
LASK bid $1.4M for Quincy Butler
The offer went to WSG Tirol 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Petter Nosa Dahl 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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Door shut on Filip Stojilković
LASK asked and Virtus Entella said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Serge-Junior Martinsson Ngouali wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at LASK can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Tempers go at LASK
Maximilian Entrup 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
LASK count the cost of losing Lukas Arnautovic
51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Maximilian Entrup gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Lukas Gugganig has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at LASK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout Ismaïla Coulibaly asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager makes Art Smakaj a promise
- Market The Maximilian Entrup talk will not go away