Rick Van Dijk

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
3 Nov 2042
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Marked for Rick Van Dijk

817 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

24 Mar 2042
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Mar 2042

Markus Weimann breaks a bone — 60 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad24 Mar 2042

Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Market24 Mar 2042

Marco Lindner 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.

In brief

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811 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

10 Feb 2042
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match10 Feb 2042

Red Bull Salzburg up to position 2

38 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad10 Feb 2042

Rick Van Dijk breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market10 Feb 2042

Andreas Laimer 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.

Squad10 Feb 2042

Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Market10 Feb 2042

Florian Junuzovic 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.

Squad10 Feb 2042

A move Dominik Rusnak would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dominik Rusnak is living that version at Red Bull Salzburg, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

810 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

3 Feb 2042
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Feb 2042

Rick Van Dijk breaks a bone — 39 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad3 Feb 2042

Maurits Kjærgaard signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maurits Kjærgaard and Red Bull Salzburg agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Feb 2042

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Market3 Feb 2042

Red Bull Salzburg turn down Altach for Timo Schreuder

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market3 Feb 2042

Grodig join the queue for Marcel Wimmer

Add another name to the list: Grodig have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marcel Wimmer. The answer from Red Bull Salzburg has not changed — yet.

Market3 Feb 2042

The Florian Junuzovic conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Austria Wien will make the call about Florian Junuzovic this week. Red Bull Salzburg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

775 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

3 Jun 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Jun 2041

18 seasons of Lucas Gourna-Douath

436 appearances across 18 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Red Bull Salzburg know what they have.

Market3 Jun 2041

Tim Drexler raises the bar for Red Bull Salzburg

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Red Bull Salzburg heard it as anything else.

Market3 Jun 2041

Rick Van Dijk puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Red Bull Salzburg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market3 Jun 2041

John Mellberg attracts admirers

The name of John Mellberg has come up in conversations Red Bull Salzburg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad3 Jun 2041

Sota Kitano signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sota Kitano and Red Bull Salzburg agree another 2 years.

Market3 Jun 2041

Altach come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Red Bull Salzburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

In brief

769 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

22 Apr 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market22 Apr 2041

Kenneth Babel 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.

Squad22 Apr 2041

Words at Red Bull Salzburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Squad22 Apr 2041

No hiding place for Kévin Boma

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kévin Boma, and the manager let it.

In brief

765 Edition

The Red Bull Salzburg Post

25 Mar 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad25 Mar 2041

Tempers go at Red Bull Salzburg

Maurits Kjærgaard 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.

Market25 Mar 2041

Kenneth Babel 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.

Squad25 Mar 2041

Rick Van Dijk gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rick Van Dijk has just signed for Red Bull Salzburg, and for once the answer mattered.

Market25 Mar 2041

Florian Junuzovic 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.

Squad25 Mar 2041

When it matters, Sota Kitano plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad25 Mar 2041

No hiding place for Valentino Schlager

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentino Schlager, and the manager let it.

In brief