Anthony Scully

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Mattersburg
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Anthony Scully

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The Mattersburg Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Wolfgang Trimmel 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 The request is on a desk at Mattersburg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Marco Knaller

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Mattersburg say no — this time

The offer from Catania for David Laimer 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Mattersburg

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words at Mattersburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christoph Laimer 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Martin Dietrich

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Mattersburg come up short against Admira Wacker

Admira Wacker left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

No hiding place for Agnaldo

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

Squad

11 new faces, and Mattersburg are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Mattersburg Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Martin Dietrich runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Mattersburg turn down Rapid Wien for Christoph Laimer

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

Squad

Anthony Scully gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Anthony Scully has just signed for Mattersburg, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Michael Lang 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 Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Andreas Trimmel’s goal not enough for Mattersburg

Andreas Trimmel scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Austria Wien, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

No hiding place for Sebastian Bauer

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Shrewsbury Town Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Josh Ruffels signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Josh Ruffels commits to Shrewsbury Town for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Shrewsbury Town

Will Brook 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.

Market

Talks stall between Shrewsbury Town and Will Boyle

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Isaac England 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.

Squad

Will Boyle asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

24 months and counting on Tom Anderson

Still no offer on the table, and Tom Anderson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief