Sinan Bakış

Striker - Sturm Graz
31 Dec 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Sinan Bakış

17 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Sturm Graz

Émile Prévost 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

Words at Sturm Graz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Otar Kiteishvili 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

No hiding place for Émile Prévost

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Maurice Malone

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Sturm Graz share the spoils with Wolfsberger AC

A 1‑1 draw with Wolfsberger AC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Michaël Frey dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Sturm Graz Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Otar Kiteishvili runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Ryan Fosso

27 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Emanuel Aiwu

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Tempers go at Sturm Graz

Florian Kainz 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.

Match

Sturm Graz are at home on the road

4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Player ratings

Jon Gorenc Stankovič was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match

Michaël Frey sends Sturm Graz past Admira Wacker

It finished 1‑0, and it was Michaël Frey’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sturm Graz.

Squad

Paul Koller 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

Sinan Bakış 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.

In brief