Michael Ilsanker

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Red Bull Salzburg
17 Mar 2036
Monday
Process

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492 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

31 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Maxime De Brul

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxime De Brul will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Red Bull Salzburg the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Clement Bischoff 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 Red Bull Salzburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Iker Muñoz 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.

In brief

Back issues
488 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

3 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Yorbe Vertessen has been here 11 seasons

313 appearances across 11 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market

Eduard Spertsyan wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Red Bull Salzburg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market

Maxime De Brul has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Red Bull Salzburg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

433 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

13 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Kévin Boma breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Clement Bischoff runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Ezekiel Kwame Alladoh scores twice — 8.98

Two goals and a mark of 8.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Red Bull Salzburg

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Alexis Vossah is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Red Bull Salzburg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg

Clement Bischoff 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.

Squad

Words at Red Bull Salzburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khalid Rashid 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.

Match

Red Bull Salzburg find a way past Austria Wien

Austria Wien made Red Bull Salzburg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Iker Muñoz

“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.

In brief