The Amstetten Post
Squad26 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jonathan Scherzer
64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Amstetten lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Amstetten
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
Words at Amstetten training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Tilio 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Maximilian Scharfetter 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 Amstetten this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Patrick Laimer joins the Amstetten first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Laimer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
Dejan Lienhart steps up from the Amstetten academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dejan Lienhart 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: Marko Junuzovic joins the Amstetten first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marko Junuzovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: David Lainer joins the Amstetten first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Lainer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
Amstetten say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Laurenz Fahrnberger
- Looking ahead A reunion for Martin Kreuzriegler
- The dugout George Davies asks for a word with the manager