The St. Pölten Gazette
Market26 Jul 2027
Mirko Kos 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 St. Pölten can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at St. Pölten
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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Bernd Gschweidl moves on
Kapfenberg pay $210.0K, 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Marc Stendera 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Marco Djuricin 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 St. Pölten this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Jul 2027
Kevin Lainer steps up from the St. Pölten academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Lainer 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
St. Pölten promote Thomas Baumgartner from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Baumgartner 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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
No hiding place for Christoph Messerer
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christoph Messerer, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at St. Pölten
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at St. Pölten
- Squad Christoph Messerer has had enough of the bench
- The dugout When it matters, Reinhard Young plays