Marked for Oscar Kabwit
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Leonardo Bertone damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market16 Nov 2026
Oscar Kabwit hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Luzern can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Luzern
Tyron Owusu 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Luzern training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matteo di Giusto 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Luzern will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Oscar Kabwit knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Luzern, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Young Boys next, and one man in the Luzern dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Luzern may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Luzern
Oscar Kabwit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match31 Oct 2026
A goal on 96 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad2 Nov 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Luzern will feel it on Saturday.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Luzern have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Crisis
Match19 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Luzern
Position 8 and 9 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Darko Jevtić: 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.” Luzern have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Luzern
Tyron Owusu 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Luzern
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo di Giusto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Luzern against Lugano
0‑1 to Lugano, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mio Zimmermann commits to Luzern for another 5 years.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Everything rides on Vaduz
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Luzern know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match3 Oct 2026
Luzern end the wait against Sion
It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Luzern
Silvan Widmer 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matteo di Giusto 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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sinan Karweina. 1‑0 against Sion, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match5 Oct 2026
The half-term report on Luzern
Position 8, 9 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
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Crisis
Match21 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Luzern
Position 9 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market21 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Luzern
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Luzern
Pascal Loretz 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Luzern come up short against Thun
Thun left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Oscar Kabwit gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Edimilson Widmer left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Severin Ottiger dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The offer went to St. Gallen this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market7 Sep 2026
Thun come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Luzern did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Luzern asked and Lugano said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Sion wanted more than $3.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Luzern close the window on a squad of their own making
23 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $11.4M — a club that wants Christian Witzig enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Luzern
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matteo di Giusto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Luzern
Oscar Kabwit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.