David Junuzovic

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13 Dec 2027
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Process

Marked for David Junuzovic

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The Rapid Wien Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Marco Grüll 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 Rapid Wien can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Rapid Wien say no — this time

The offer from Servette for Marco Grüll was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

AC Milan tell Rapid Wien: Svetoslav Vutsov 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

Rapid Wien may not be able to give Niklas Hedl what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Niklas Hedl wants continental football; whether Rapid Wien can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Market

Tobias Gulliksen wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Rapid Wien hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Furkan Demir 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 Rapid Wien this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Rapid Wien training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrés Andrade 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.

Match

Marco Grüll sends Rapid Wien past Sturm Graz

It finished 2‑0, and it was Marco Grüll’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rapid Wien.

Player ratings

Tobias Gulliksen was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.36. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sascha Horvath 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 Rapid Wien, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Rapid Wien

Andrés Andrade 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Rapid Wien

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

One of our own: David Junuzovic joins the Rapid Wien first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Junuzovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Kevin Junuzovic steps up from the Rapid Wien academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Junuzovic 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.

Market

Andreas Sabitzer steps up from the Rapid Wien academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andreas Sabitzer 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.

The dugout

Ercan Kara has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Rapid Wien 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.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Rapid Wien

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

The dugout

Jonas Auer asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief