The WSG Tirol Gazette
Market25 Jan 2027
Quincy Butler 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 WSG Tirol can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Dario Bijelić
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. WSG Tirol have done the hard part with Austria Salzburg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Quincy Butler 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 WSG Tirol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at WSG Tirol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Stejskal 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 targets25 Jan 2027
Door shut on Anan Khalaili
WSG Tirol asked and Union SG said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Moritz Wels
“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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
David Kubatta gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say David Kubatta is on it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
David Jaunegg knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Jaunegg trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market25 Jan 2027
The David Gugganig story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until David Gugganig signs something — a contract at WSG Tirol or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on David Kubatta are not good
- The dugout Quincy Butler keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Welcome back, Raphael Posch