Marcel Lainer

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Marked for Marcel Lainer

496 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom28 Jan 2036

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Sturm Graz

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market28 Jan 2036

Juho Talvitie 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 The request is on a desk at Sturm Graz, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout28 Jan 2036

Fran Čuljak keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sturm Graz may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Words exchanged at Sturm Graz

Angelo Stiller 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.

Market28 Jan 2036

Jan Jurgec has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sturm Graz they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market28 Jan 2036

Sturm Graz say no — this time

The offer from Arsenal Tula for Timofey Mitrov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad28 Jan 2036

A row about effort at Sturm Graz

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juho Talvitie was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch28 Jan 2036

The goals keep arriving from Luka Vrbančić’s exile

14 goals in 18 games at WSG Tirol — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Sturm Graz updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Squad28 Jan 2036

Sturm Graz lose Marcel Lainer

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

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492 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

31 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Dec 2035

Juho Talvitie 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 Sturm Graz can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom31 Dec 2035

Pressure builds in the Sturm Graz boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

The dugout31 Dec 2035

Aleks Tunchev: 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.” Sturm Graz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Words exchanged at Sturm Graz

Angelo Stiller 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.

Market31 Dec 2035

Only the photograph left for Jan Jurgec

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

Squad31 Dec 2035

Words at Sturm Graz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juho Talvitie 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.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Nasrallah Kpeigouni gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nasrallah Kpeigouni has just signed for Sturm Graz, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout31 Dec 2035

The manager makes an example of Bartol Barišić

“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.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Sturm Graz lose Marcel Lainer

48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief