If you only dance at two weddings, you don’t need a large squad. League leaders Red Bull Salzburg, who are not wintering in the European Cup for the first time in years, also took this motto to heart. And certainly parted ways with his last winning goalscorer on loan. This is 23-year-old Polish central defender Kamil Piatkowski, who scored a header in the 1-0 win against Rapid in Hütteldorf at the beginning of December. With his only goal in the Bundesliga so far in his 30th competitive game for the subscription champions. Piatkowski, who moved to Salzburg in 2021, was already on loan to the Belgian club Genk a year ago in the spring. Now, instead of fighting for the title in Austria, he has to prevent Granada from being relegated from the Spanish La Liga. The penultimate team celebrated only its second win on Wednesday in the 19th round and has conceded 40 goals so far. Only bottom team Almeria got more. Salzburg apparently expects Oumar Solet and Strahinja Pavlovic to stay, so they are doing without Piatkowski, as youngster Samson Baidoo proved himself in the autumn.
Rapid believes they can make it to the championship round even without striker Ante Bajic (pictured). The 28-year-old, who moved from Ried to Hütteldorf in the summer of 2022, returned to the Innviertel after 45 games with five goals and four assists. Got a contract with the second division club until 2027. The transfer can also be seen as a declaration of war on GAK in the duel for promotion to the Bundesliga. Rapid paid 350,000 euros for Bajic and will now have received less. The fast winger was missing in the last six rounds; he previously scored two goals in twelve appearances. In the 5-0 away wins against Debrecen and Blau Weiß Linz. Bajic is Rapid’s second winter departure after Patrick Greil. It couldn’t have been the last.
Austria did not object to the return of Israeli defender Matan Baltaxa to Maccabi Tel Aviv. The left-footer did not cost a transfer fee in the summer of 2022 and was only used sixteen times in one and a half years. Eight times in the fall, only once from the start. Officially, Aleksander Jukic will not be flying to the training camp in the Maltese capital La Valletta on Monday after the December scandal. But sports director Manuel Ortlechner shouldn’t have too high hopes of getting a transfer for him in the winter. It is also official that Max Uhlig, previously coach of the Young Violets, is moving to the cooperation club in the second division, Stripfing. Instead of him, as expected, ex-team player Emanuel Pogatetz takes over the job with the fourth team in the Regionalliga East.
Roma loanee Ebrima Darboe was missing from LASK’s start of training. The 22-year-old midfielder, who has played 363 minutes in nine games so far, is part of Gambia’s squad at the Africa Cup of Nations. Bottom team Austria Lustenau presented its first winter acquisition one day after the contract was terminated with Jonathan Schmid. It’s unusual for a player from seventh in the second division in South Korea to come to the Austrian Bundesliga. From Jeannman Dragon to the Ländle – this has never happened before. The jump is made by 26-year-old striker Leo Mikic, who previously played in Austria at FC Lustenau, in Kapfenberg and at Ried until the summer of 2023, where Lustenau’s new coach with a Ried past, Andreas Heraf, knows him.
Photo: FotobyHofer/Christian Hofer.
2024-01-05 19:26:36
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