The Basel Courier
Squad1 Jun 2037
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Quirk
113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Basel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom1 Jun 2037
Basel are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Match1 Jun 2037
Basel refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 31 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad1 Jun 2037
A fracture rules Albian Mvogo out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Basel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad1 Jun 2037
Tempers go at Basel
Sindre Walle Egeli 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.
Squad1 Jun 2037
Words at Basel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rudy Kohon 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.
In brief
- Market Tommaso Ghirardello told to find a new club
- Market Basel put Diogo Nascimento up for sale
- Boardroom The Basel board put their names to it