The Austria Wien Post
Squad26 Jul 2027
The knee: Aleksandar Dragović out for 29 days
29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Austria Wien lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market26 Jul 2027
Kelvin Boateng asks to leave Austria Wien
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Austria Wien
Johannes Eggestein and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Austria Wien
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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Mattes Hansen 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Door shut on Asger Sørensen
Austria Wien asked and Sparta Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market26 Jul 2027
Austria Wien promote Martin Alaba from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martin Alaba 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
Raphael Grillitsch steps up from the Austria Wien academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raphael Grillitsch 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
One of our own: Martin Baumgartner joins the Austria Wien first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin 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
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger
- The dugout Johannes Eggestein has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Philipp Wiesinger asks for a word with the manager