Thomas Baumgartner

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The Austria Klagenfurt Herald

19 May 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Austria Klagenfurt boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Albin Berisha 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 Austria Klagenfurt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Austria Klagenfurt training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamza Abdallah 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.

Squad

Bruno Trey wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Austria Klagenfurt can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 107% of the Austria Klagenfurt income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout

No hiding place for Santiago Eraso

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Eraso, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Nathan Garcia 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.

Market

Still no ink between Austria Klagenfurt and Garro López

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Austria Klagenfurt, another week without a signature from Garro López.

Market

Nathan Garcia runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Austria Klagenfurt money.

In brief