Marked for Mischa Beeli
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mats Hammerich: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vaduz have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market11 Jan 2027
Vaduz get their man
The chase for Amir Saipi ended with $1.1M changing hands and Lugano out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mischa Beeli is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Ayo Akinola in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Vaduz spend $1.1M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.1M for Amir Saipi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mischa Beeli commits to Vaduz for another 4 years.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Vaduz's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vaduz has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Vaduz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Vaduz
Ayo Akinola 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Einar Galilea 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
Vaduz come up short against Thun
Thun left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market26 Oct 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Keder Junior is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Vaduz
Ayo Akinola 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Liridon Berisha commits to Vaduz for another 3 years.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Dejan Djokic’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Vaduz.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jonathan de Donno 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 38, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ayo Akinola and Vaduz agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ayo Akinola in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Brian Beyer 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Luca Mack is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Vaduz has been clear about where Luca Mack stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Stephan Seiler's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ângelo Campos, and the manager let it.