Philipp Lainer

Striker - Grazer AK U18
5 Feb 2027
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The Grazer AK Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Tim Trummer, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.72

A mark of 7.72 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

LASK tell Grazer AK: Sascha Horvath is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Grazer AK get their man

The chase for Modou Kéba Cissé ended with $640.0K changing hands and LASK out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets

David Mokwa turns down Grazer AK

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: SV Elversberg keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at Grazer AK

Jürgen Heil was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Business is business: Juri Kirchmayr goes

Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz paid $690.0K and Grazer AK took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Marcus Maier 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Zétény Jánó

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Tim Trummer sends Grazer AK past Altach

It finished 2‑0, and it was Tim Trummer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Grazer AK.

In brief