The Red Bull Salzburg Post
Match19 Apr 2027
Red Bull Salzburg up to position 1
38 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market19 Apr 2027
Frans Krätzig raises the bar for Red Bull Salzburg
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Red Bull Salzburg heard it as anything else.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg
Dominik Schmid 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Jesper Lindstrøm 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.
Market19 Apr 2027
One of our own: Wolfgang Ilsanker joins the Red Bull Salzburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wolfgang Ilsanker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Apr 2027
David Onisiwo steps up from the Red Bull Salzburg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Onisiwo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Apr 2027
Patrick Wimmer steps up from the Red Bull Salzburg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Wimmer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Frans Krätzig has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Red Bull Salzburg will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
Florent Hadergjonaj has made Burton Albion’s shirt his own
33 starts now, an average of 6.89, and the team sheet at Burton Albion has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
In brief
- Squad Jesper Lindstrøm keeps his manager's vote
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Florent Hadergjonaj