The Rapid Wien Chronicle
Market23 Aug 2027
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
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 targets23 Aug 2027
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
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 ratings23 Aug 2027
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
- Player ratings Marco Grüll was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout Yusuf Demir gets it from the manager
- Squad David Junuzovic stays put