Markus Winter

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Process

Marked for Markus Winter

44 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Martin Hinteregger breaks a bone — 116 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

The season belongs to Florian Laimer

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Mattersburg have had the benefit of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Mattersburg

Martin Hinteregger and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Frank Mena gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Frank Mena has just signed for Mattersburg, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Mattersburg buy the years ahead of Frank Mena

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Mattersburg buy the years ahead of Markus Winter

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

VfB Stuttgart baulk at the price for Julián Álvarez

Atlético Madrid wanted more than $105.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

VfB Stuttgart rebuffed over Kaishu Sano

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mainz 05 have kept their man, and VfB Stuttgart go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Pascal Stenzel moves on

RB Leipzig pay $6.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Eyes on Bilal El Khannouss again

The phone has started ringing about Bilal El Khannouss again, and this time the name on the line is RB Leipzig. VfB Stuttgart are listening politely and promising nothing.

Boardroom

VfB Stuttgart go back to the board over Julián Álvarez

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $146.5M — a club that wants Julián Álvarez enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Lorenz Assignon

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. VfB Stuttgart will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Markus Winter signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Markus Winter commits to VfB Stuttgart for another 3 years.

Market

The Angelo Stiller talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. VfB Stuttgart know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Looking ahead

Kacper Potulski goes back to face Mainz 05

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Kacper Potulski’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and VfB Stuttgart needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

3 Edition

The VfB Stuttgart Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

VfB Stuttgart bid $92.7M for Julián Álvarez

The offer went to Atlético Madrid 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 targets

VfB Stuttgart rebuffed over Aurélien Tchouaméni

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Real Madrid have kept their man, and VfB Stuttgart go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

An offer of $7.9M for Jean Butez

VfB Stuttgart have gone to Como with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

RB Leipzig come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and VfB Stuttgart did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Matheo Raab turns down VfB Stuttgart

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

Market

The Deniz Undav question follows VfB Stuttgart around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Deniz Undav’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Nikolas Nartey wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and VfB Stuttgart have no good answer.

The terraces

Supporters make their feelings known about Bilal El Khannouss

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. VfB Stuttgart would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

Squad

A season on the outside for Kacper Potulski

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at VfB Stuttgart has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief