Marked for Jon McLaughlin
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
The knee: Savo Rakić out for 23 days
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Grodig can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Köln keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Leon Klußmann 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sebastian Lazaro has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Grodig has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jon McLaughlin damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Grodig
Erkin Yalcin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jon McLaughlin damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 30 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match30 Nov 2026
Grodig sink to position 10
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Erkin Yalcin 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 Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Niedermüller, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Leon Klußmann knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Leon Klußmann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Erkin Yalcin keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Grodig say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Andrej Lazarevic has written the date down.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon McLaughlin
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Grodig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Grodig's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Grodig has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Nils Miatke breaks a bone — 38 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match21 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Grodig
11 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Grodig and Red Bull Salzburg, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match21 Nov 2026
2‑4 to Red Bull Salzburg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Daniel Leitz gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
46 days out for Nils Miatke after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grodig will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match14 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Grodig
10 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Grodig leaking at the back
10 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad16 Nov 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Grodig
Leon Klußmann 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Altach left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Erkin Yalcin, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Patrick Lienhart to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon McLaughlin
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Grodig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match7 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Grodig
9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match7 Nov 2026
Grodig leaking at the back
9 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Grodig
Alexander Schwaighofer 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Grodig will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match7 Nov 2026
1‑2 to Admira Wacker, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
56 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 63 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Nov 2026
Grodig sink to position 10
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match31 Oct 2026
8 matches without a win for Grodig
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Grodig are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Grodig are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 8 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Grodig
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leon Klußmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 18 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon McLaughlin
63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Grodig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 70 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
A hiding for Grodig
Beaten 1‑6 by Sturm Graz, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Grodig's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Grodig has to find a result from somewhere.
Match24 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Grodig
7 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Grodig
Erkin Yalcin 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Grodig and Sturm Graz in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon McLaughlin
71 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Grodig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad19 Oct 2026
77 days out for Nils Miatke after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grodig will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Grodig
0‑6 against SV Ried, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Grodig's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Grodig has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Grodig
6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Grodig
Erkin Yalcin 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Grodig and SV Ried in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Grodig dressing room in a hurry
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market
Lukas Hiermann is free to find somewhere else
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
80 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
84 days out for Nils Miatke after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grodig will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Grodig
A 1‑5 beating by Mattersburg was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market12 Oct 2026
“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 Grodig, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Grodig
5 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Grodig leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Grodig
Erkin Yalcin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jon McLaughlin damages knee ligaments — 88 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad5 Oct 2026
91 days out for Nils Miatke after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Grodig will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match5 Oct 2026
Grodig sink to position 10
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 6 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Grodig
4 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Austria Wien left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match3 Oct 2026
Grodig leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jon McLaughlin damages knee ligaments — 96 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
A hiding for Grodig
Beaten 1‑7 by Rapid Wien, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Grodig
Leon Klußmann 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Grodig and Rapid Wien in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
David Stec gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match28 Sep 2026
Grodig at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 10, 3 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
104 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nils Miatke breaks a bone — 107 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Sep 2026
A hiding for Grodig
Beaten 1‑7 by Red Bull Salzburg, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Grodig
Alexander Schwaighofer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Beaten 7 times, with 4 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Grodig dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Patrick Lienhart after 1‑7, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jon McLaughlin damages knee ligaments — 111 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 111 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Nils Miatke out for 114 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Grodig will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑3 to Altach, 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Grodig can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estoril Praia have kept their man, and Grodig go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Grodig
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leon Klußmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrej Lazarevic, and the manager let it.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Grodig
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Patrick Lienhart to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jon McLaughlin
118 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Grodig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Grodig
Position 9 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Grodig, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Grodig close the window on a squad of their own making
23 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Farense is saying, and nobody at Grodig is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Erkin Yalcin 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 Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
The drought breaks for Grodig
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Admira Wacker were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Admira Wacker, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
127 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Grodig
A 0‑5 beating by Wolfsberger AC was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Grodig out
Out, 0‑2 to SV Ried, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Grodig can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Grodig
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Grodig leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Grodig
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Grodig asked and Palermo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Grodig training over how hard people work
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Squad
Tempers go at Grodig
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Leon Klußmann
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match22 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Grodig
0‑9 against Sturm Graz, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Grodig's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Grodig has to find a result from somewhere.
Market24 Aug 2026
Grodig pay Altach $360.0K for a proper upgrade
Altach did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $360.0K for Erkin Yalcin, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Grodig
Leon Klußmann 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Grodig and Sturm Graz, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Grodig spend $360.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $360.0K for Erkin Yalcin, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sturm Graz have kept their man, and Grodig go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match22 Aug 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Grodig
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
In brief
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The dugout
No hiding place for David Drljić
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Boardroom
Doors closed at Grodig
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Squad
8 new faces, and Grodig are still learning each other
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑4 to SV Ried, 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Grodig asked and Rapid Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
Grodig spend $420.0K to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $420.0K has been paid because Dominik Kirnbauer is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$310.0K on the table at Altach. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Grodig
Leon Klußmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Grodig spend $420.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $420.0K for Dominik Kirnbauer, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vlado Graboviča has his answer from Grodig; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vlado Graboviča, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Grodig dressing room in a hurry
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Market
Still no ink between Grodig and Jon McLaughlin
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
11 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match8 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Grodig
A 0‑10 beating by Mattersburg was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$420.0K settles it between the clubs for Dominik Kirnbauer
SV Ried have accepted the money. What Grodig do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Grodig asked and Rapid Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Altach wanted more than $290.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Match8 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Grodig and Mattersburg, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Grodig
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leon Klußmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 Aug 2026
David Drljić 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 Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Sabitzer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.