The Rapid Wien Chronicle
Market26 Jul 2027
Marco Tilio agrees terms with Grodig
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rapid Wien people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market26 Jul 2027
Oliver Strunz has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rapid Wien they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tobias Gulliksen 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Rapid Wien
Ange Ahoussou 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Patrick Prass joins the Rapid Wien first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Prass is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Lukas Ulmer joins the Rapid Wien first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lukas Ulmer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Rapid Wien board go back on their word
Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Rapid Wien
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Louis Schaub
- The dugout Bendegúz Bolla has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Tobias Gulliksen asks for a word with the manager