The First Vienna Gazette
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at First Vienna training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lukas Boeder 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.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Door shut on Daniil Khudyakov
First Vienna asked and Sturm Graz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at First Vienna
Marco Gantschnig and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match11 Sep 2027
First Vienna get the job done against Austria Wien
A 1‑0 win over Austria Wien, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad13 Sep 2027
First Vienna lose Peter Wimmer
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Bernhard Zimmermann stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.68 on the card, and the First Vienna support went home talking about one name.
Squad13 Sep 2027
First Vienna are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Florian Laimer kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Looking ahead13 Sep 2027
A test against the best for First Vienna
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Red Bull Salzburg.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Yorbe Vertessen
- Player ratings Yorbe Vertessen could have had three
- The dugout No place in the plan for Niklas Szerencsi