Raphael Grillitsch

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Amstetten U18
15 Dec 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Raphael Grillitsch

30 Edition

The Amstetten Post

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Wimmer

118 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Amstetten lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

A row about effort at Amstetten

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Tilio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Erkin Yalcin 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 Amstetten this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Amstetten count the cost of losing Raphael Grillitsch

25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Zaid Tchibara was the difference for Amstetten

Marked 7.55. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Boardroom

86% of the income goes out in wages at Amstetten

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

The dugout

Philipp Posch on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Philipp Posch after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sebastian Wimmer

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

The dugout

Amstetten pick somebody else ahead of George Davies

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

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The Amstetten Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Luca Wimhofer hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Amstetten can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Zaid Tchibara 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 Amstetten this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Amstetten training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Tilio 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 targets

Door shut on Moritz Neumann

Amstetten asked and FAC Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Amstetten lose Raphael Grillitsch

55 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

No place for Marco Tilio on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Amstetten pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Enrique Aguilar is in the works

Amstetten have made the call to Red Bull Salzburg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 88% of the Amstetten 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.

Match

Amstetten share the spoils with First Vienna

A 1‑1 draw with First Vienna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief