The Blau-Weiß Linz Courier
Squad15 Oct 2029
The knee: Andreas Baumgartner out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Blau-Weiß Linz lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match15 Oct 2029
Blau-Weiß Linz are in real trouble now
Position 10, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market15 Oct 2029
Daniel Nunoo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Blau-Weiß Linz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad15 Oct 2029
Nardin Mulahusejnović 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 Blau-Weiß Linz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Oct 2029
Christopher Martins Pereira 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.
Market15 Oct 2029
Blau-Weiß Linz may not be able to give Ryan Carlos what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ryan Carlos wants continental football; whether Blau-Weiß Linz can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad15 Oct 2029
Thomas Schiestl: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Blau-Weiß Linz will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout15 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Afonso Assis
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market15 Oct 2029
Still no ink between Blau-Weiß Linz and Fasson
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Blau-Weiß Linz, another week without a signature from Fasson.
In brief
- The dugout Maximilian Entrup has become a man the manager trusts
- Looking ahead Thomas Schiestl faces his old club
- Market The Simon Seidl talk will not go away