The St. Gallen Post
Squad21 Apr 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lukas Watkowiak
120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. St. Gallen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
Matteo Mantini keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” St. Gallen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Apr 2031
A falling-out at St. Gallen
Lukas Görtler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Apr 2031
A row about effort at St. Gallen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jozo Stanić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
Jozo Stanić gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jozo Stanić is on it.
The dugout21 Apr 2031
A door opens for Kevin Csoboth
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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Aliou Baldé
- Squad Derly Da Silva is starting to belong