Marco Alaba

Left Forward - Free Agent
30 Jul 2034
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Marked for Marco Alaba

367 Edition

The St. Pölten Gazette

8 Aug 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match6 Aug 2033

St. Pölten taken apart

0‑3 to Red Bull Salzburg, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Transfer targets8 Aug 2033

Fee done, terms next for Kenan Jusič

St. Pölten and Austria Wien have settled on $920.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market8 Aug 2033

Guido Lindner asks to leave St. Pölten

“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.

Market8 Aug 2033

LASK join the queue for Dušan Jovanović

Add another name to the list: LASK have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dušan Jovanović. The answer from St. Pölten has not changed — yet.

The dugout8 Aug 2033

Marco Alaba: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Pölten have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets8 Aug 2033

The paperwork begins on Florian Bachmann

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. St. Pölten have done the hard part with WSG Tirol, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad8 Aug 2033

Maksym Braharu 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 St. Pölten this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom8 Aug 2033

St. Pölten still without a manager

14 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Transfer targets8 Aug 2033

Rapid Wien tell St. Pölten: Giorgi Gocholeishvili is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

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348 Edition

The St. Pölten Gazette

28 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Mar 2033

Words exchanged at St. Pölten

José Luis García 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.

Squad28 Mar 2033

Tyrese Campbell 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.

The dugout28 Mar 2033

No hiding place for Hatim Es-Saouabi

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

Market28 Mar 2033

The Franko Kolić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Franko Kolić signs something — a contract at St. Pölten or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout28 Mar 2033

Filip Rejczyk knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at St. Pölten, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout28 Mar 2033

Ryan Wintle has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at St. Pölten will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market28 Mar 2033

Still no signature from Senad Mustafić

2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what St. Pölten could get for him.

Squad28 Mar 2033

Marco Alaba has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and St. Pölten will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Boardroom28 Mar 2033

The St. Pölten production line keeps running

71 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

344 Edition

The St. Pölten Gazette

28 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market28 Feb 2033

Matthys Nottebaert hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what St. Pölten can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Feb 2033

Words exchanged at St. Pölten

José Luis García 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.

Squad28 Feb 2033

Tyrese Campbell 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.

The dugout28 Feb 2033

The manager makes an example of Leonardo Tavares

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market28 Feb 2033

Still no ink between St. Pölten and Yassin Sbai

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at St. Pölten, another week without a signature from Yassin Sbai.

Market28 Feb 2033

The Franko Kolić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Franko Kolić signs something — a contract at St. Pölten or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout28 Feb 2033

Ryan Wintle has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at St. Pölten will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market28 Feb 2033

Senad Mustafić runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs St. Pölten money.

Squad28 Feb 2033

Marco Alaba has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and St. Pölten will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief