The Stripfing Post
Squad12 May 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Roberto Vanegas
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stripfing lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 May 2031
47 days out for Hugo Constant after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stripfing will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 May 2031
Christopher Olsa 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 The request is on a desk at Stripfing, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 May 2031
Frans Krätzig 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 Stripfing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 May 2031
Paul Komposch 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.
Market12 May 2031
Stripfing promote Florian Baumgartner from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Florian Baumgartner has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 May 2031
Stripfing promote Marko Fuchs from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marko Fuchs has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market12 May 2031
Lukas Kalajdzic steps up from the Stripfing academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lukas Kalajdzic 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.
Boardroom12 May 2031
Wages swallow 87% of the Stripfing 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.
In brief
- The dugout Aljoša Matko knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes Philipp Moizi a promise
- Boardroom The Stripfing academy earns its keep