Steven Wright

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sturm Graz
22 Sep 2038
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Process

Marked for Steven Wright

622 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

28 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Szymon Żurkowski

62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sturm Graz lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Maurice Malone 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 Sturm Graz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Sturm Graz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Seedy Jatta 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Steven Wright at Sturm Graz

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Steven Wright is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

97% of the income goes out in wages at Sturm Graz

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market

The Jeyland Mitchell story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jeyland Mitchell signs something — a contract at Sturm Graz or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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574 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

27 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Thomas Hinteregger out for 77 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sturm Graz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Szymon Żurkowski says Sturm Graz went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ervin Bashi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ervin Bashi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sturm Graz the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Grodig come back empty-handed

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

Boardroom

Thomas Lienhart signs on for the long haul

Sturm Graz moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Thomas Lienhart, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Squad

Tempers go at Sturm Graz

Emanuel Aiwu 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Steven Wright at Sturm Graz

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Steven Wright is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Sturm Graz

10 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Dejan Wimmer joins the Sturm Graz first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dejan Wimmer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief