Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Thursday, July 03, 2025, 09:14 / Updated Thursday, July 3, 2025 09:19
The Austrian national striker, Marko Arnaautovic (36 years old), concluded his contract with Inter, and the club was not prolonged.
Marko Arnaautovic was not played by an important role last season, in Inter, and Cristi Chivu recommended that the management do not extend his scandal agreement on July 1. What happened.
The Austrian striker, the opponent of the tricolors in the World Cup preliminaries, is unemployed, but not for long – write the Austrian newspapers. The most interested is fast Vienna.
Rapid's T -shirts with Marko Arnautovic's name are already in shops
According to the Austrian newspaper “Heute”, the Rapid team t-shirts bearing Arnautovic's name are already “in sight” in a sports articles store on Mariahilfer Street in Vienna. Near them, the message “Soon!”
But it's a problem. The player had a salary of 3 million euros per season, while Rapid can only guarantee 1 million euros a year and the rest of the bonuses.
Coach Peter Stoeger: “We would take a player who can score between 15 and 20 goals per season”
If coach Peter Stoeger (59 years old) prefers to be balanced and wait for the end of the negotiations, the sports director of the Rapid, Markus Katzer, has already announced that the striker “is ready to sign”.
Stöger would be glad if things would clarify until Saturday, when the team left in the cantonment: “We would take a player who can score between 15 and 20 goals a season. Before meant an image, marketing, bringing Marko would be a real luck for our club.”
The tricolors will see Marko Arnautovic on October 12, in Bucharest
De Lastovic has been interested lately and Beșiktaș. But nothing was materialized. And according to “Heute”, Rapid Vienna could win because the striker wants to focus on preparation for the next season: “His primary goal is to play at the 2026 World Cup, with the national team, before retiring from football.”
In the preliminaries, against Romania (2-1), he was introduced along the way, instead of Gregoritsch. But there is the return from Bucharest, scheduled on October 12, 2025, in Bucharest.
