The Stripfing Post
Boardroom10 Jun 2030
The scrutiny sharpens at Stripfing
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Stripfing is running low.
Squad10 Jun 2030
49 days out for Simone Leonardi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stripfing will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Jun 2030
Elias Scherf agrees terms with Austria Klagenfurt
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Stripfing people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets10 Jun 2030
The paperwork begins on Albin Berisha
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stripfing have done the hard part with Kapfenberg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Paul Komposch 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.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Leandro Suhr 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 Stripfing this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jun 2030
Patrick Baumgartner pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
The dugout10 Jun 2030
No hiding place for Luka Olić
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Olić, and the manager let it.
Market10 Jun 2030
Bambo Diaby told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Bambo Diaby has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Stripfing.
In brief
- The dugout Nikola Jojić asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom Stripfing bank $833.3K from an old deal
- The dugout When it matters, Jovan Ćirić plays