The Sturm Graz Sentinel
Squad26 Jul 2027
Otar Kiteishvili damages knee ligaments — 141 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 141 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market26 Jul 2027
Valmir Matoshi 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 Sturm Graz can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Sturm Graz bid $3.8M for Kelvin Boateng
The offer went to Austria Wien 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Admira Wacker come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sturm Graz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sturm Graz
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Birmingham tell Sturm Graz: Demarai Gray 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Sturm Graz promote Valentino Junuzovic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Valentino Junuzovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Peter Trimmel joins the Sturm Graz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Trimmel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Sturm Graz
Belmin Beganović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- Loan watch Luca Weinhandl wants to come home
- Transfer targets Sturm Graz ask about Alexander Schlager
- Looking ahead A reunion for Paul Koller