Maxime Lestienne

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Young Boys
2 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

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The Young Boys Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Business is business: Marvin Keller goes

Chelsea paid $17.1M and Young Boys took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Trabzonspor tell Young Boys: Batista Mendy is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Herba Guirassy

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

A $17.1M sale, and a town that did not want it

Marvin Keller has gone, the accounts have $17.1M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Vitesse come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Young Boys did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Young Boys cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Words exchanged at Young Boys

Alvyn Sanches 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.

Squad

Words at Young Boys training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Fassnacht 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.

Match

Young Boys get the job done against St. Gallen

A 2‑0 win over St. Gallen, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

  • Match St. Gallen blown away early
  • Player ratings Kaly Sène was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings Alvyn Sanches was on a different afternoon to everybody else