In total, the twelve first-class clubs recorded 122.59 million in player sales, with Ligakroesus Salzburg accounting for a considerable proportion of this. Infected by the Bulls’ high transfer fees, Sturm Graz also flushed millions into the club’s coffers with the club’s record transfer from Rasmus Höjlund.
At RB Salzburg, the traditional annual upheaval also took place this summer. During this transfer period, the income from player sales reached a remarkable and unprecedented level. The “Bulls” earned almost 93 million euros through departures (before it was almost 67 million). A large proportion of this is attributable to the sales of Karim Adeyemi, Brenden Aaronson, Ramus Kristensen and Mohamed Camara. In return, the Mozart townspeople strengthened the squad for almost 30 million euros. The French U19 international Lucas Gourna-Douath climbed to first place in Salzburg’s record purchases with a fee of 13 million euros.
Austria used LASK
Vice-champion Sturm managed a real transfer coup shortly before the exchange window closed. The Grazers let the super talent Höjlund move south to the Italian first division club Atalanta Bergamo for 17 million euros. With this transfer fee, the Austrian Bundesliga club clearly pulverized the previous record sale Kelvin Yeboah (6.5 million). Sturm signed his Danish compatriot William Böving to replace Höjlund.
Wiener Austria made extensive use of league opponents LASK. With James Holland, Andreas Gruber and Marko Raguz, three players relocated from Linz to the federal capital. The violets put 1.3 million euros on the table for center forward Raguz, but he has not yet played a competitive game in violet due to persistent knee problems. Austria investor Jürgen Werner calmed the fans down. The new attacker will “definitely still play in the fall,” emphasized the 60-year-old.
Action required at Rapid
Rivals Rapid Vienna tried to expand the squad over a longer period of the season in view of the hoped-for double burden. Those responsible for the Green-Whites succeeded in this personnel project thanks to commitments from Guido Burgstaller, Nicolas Kühn and Patrick Greil, among others. After leaving the international competition, however, the squad is likely to be too large.
Austria Klagenfurt can call itself the transfer emperor of the summer period. The Carinthians signed twelve players. Some things were also turned inside out at LASK. The total of 13 departures are offset by eight newcomers. Probably the most prominent commitment was made by SCR Altach with Miroslav Klose. The German ex-world champion and World Cup record scorer has been in charge of the fortunes of the Vorarlberg team as head coach since the beginning of the season.
Meanwhile, Michael Liendl, a veteran, said goodbye to the Austrian football upper house. The 36-year-old moved from Wolfsberg to his native city of Graz to join GAK. With Giacomo Vrioni, the top scorer of the previous season (ex aequo with Adeyemi) also left the Bundesliga. The Albanian returned to Juventus after the end of the loan from WSG Tirol and was consequently sold on to New England in Major League Soccer.
Hartberg tried to compensate for the departure of Donis Avdijaj with young talents from AS Roma. The best-known newcomer in Ried is the former LASK and Austria player Christoph Monschein. As in the previous season, newly promoted Austria Lustenau can count on the support of the French cooperation club Clermont Foot. Bryan Teixeira was signed on a free transfer, Yuliwes Bellache was loaned out.
Source: Nachrichten
