The Austria Salzburg Courier
Squad10 Feb 2031
16 days out for Loïc Socka after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Austria Salzburg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Feb 2031
Aaron Bott has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Austria Salzburg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Feb 2031
Aaron Bott signs for Blau-Weiß Linz while still at Austria Salzburg
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Aaron Bott has agreed terms with Blau-Weiß Linz for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Yerry Falcao gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yerry Falcao has just signed for Austria Salzburg, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Feb 2031
A row about effort at Austria Salzburg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florian Krebs was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Feb 2031
A falling-out at Austria Salzburg
Arnau Casas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom10 Feb 2031
142% of the income goes out in wages at Austria Salzburg
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market10 Feb 2031
One of our own: Sebastian Lazaro joins the Austria Salzburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sebastian Lazaro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Feb 2031
One of our own: Marko Baumgartner joins the Austria Salzburg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marko Baumgartner is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Raphael Junuzovic steps up from the Austria Salzburg academy
- Match A bad afternoon for Austria Salzburg against Austria Klagenfurt
- The dugout No hiding place for Arnau Casas