The Sturm Graz Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz bid $11.8M for Ellis Simms
The offer went to Coventry City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz make their move for Petter Nosa Dahl
$1.9M on the table at Rapid Wien. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Benedikt Pichler
Sturm Graz asked and Hannover 96 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz go back to the board over Martin Rasner
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $933.2K — a club that wants Martin Rasner enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Sturm Graz walk away from Martin Rasner
$830.0K was the most the club would pay and SV Ried were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gizo Mamageishvili stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gizo Mamageishvili and Sturm Graz agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Seedy Jatta
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Kevin Alaba joins the Sturm Graz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kevin Alaba is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Peter Kalajdzic joins the Sturm Graz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Kalajdzic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Maximilian Lazaro steps up from the Sturm Graz academy
- Market Sturm Graz promote Philipp Arnautovic from within
- Match Red Bull Salzburg take the points off Sturm Graz