The Wil Chronicle
Squad25 Jan 2027
Edgar Benítez breaks a bone — 20 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Wil
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobias Raschl was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Wil
Tim Staubli 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Marwane Hajij 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages swallow 110% of the Wil income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad25 Jan 2027
8 new faces, and Wil are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout Alex Amadio knocks on the manager's door
- Market Wil bring in Cosimo Fiorini on loan
- Market Mardochée Miguel arrives on loan
- The dugout The manager comes out for Kastrijot Ndau