Marked for Noah Brogli
From our football correspondent
Steady
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Supporters organise against the Luzern board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tyron Owusu 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 Luzern this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Pius Dorn
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I watch every Luzern game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Javor-Matis runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The plan did not have a place for Leonardo Bertone
Nobody at Luzern is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noah Brogli, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
Kacper Potulski 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Winterthur
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Loizos Loizou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Winterthur, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Market9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Edimilson Mvogo was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Winterthur dressing room was either.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Pajtim Kasami's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Rhodri Smith
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kacper Potulski 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Winterthur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Loizos Loizou 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Winterthur game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Luzern runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Winterthur are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mirlind Kryeziu, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Young Boys next, and one man in the Winterthur dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Loïc Lüthi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Loïc Lüthi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Winterthur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kacper Potulski 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Winterthur asked and Rapid Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Djibril Sommer has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Loizos Loizou 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Winterthur, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.70. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Roman Buess to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lausanne-Sport, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market14 Sep 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
No hiding place for Luca Zuffi
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Looking ahead
A reunion for Nishan Burkart
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Uneasy
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$2.8M on the table at Lausanne-Sport. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leonardo Bertone and Luzern agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Luzern
Leonardo Bertone 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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympiacos have kept their man, and Luzern go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Pascal Loretz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Luzern have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Pius Dorn runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 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 targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Pajtim Kasami and Winterthur agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Pajtim Kasami and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Noah Brogli has come up in conversations Winterthur were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Remo Arnold 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
“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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.