The Aarau Sentinel
Match4 Sep 2028
Aarau are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 14 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Marvin Hübel stands alone
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Deadline passes with 25 signed and 19 gone
That is the business done at Aarau until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Aarau
Felix Mambimbi 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A move Ismaïl Bamba would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ismaïl Bamba is living that version at Aarau, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Aarau
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noah Sarenren-Bazee was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
No hiding place for Isaac Monnier
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isaac Monnier, and the manager let it.
Match2 Sep 2028
Aarau and Neuchâtel Xamax take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ricardo Benito chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Dorian Derbaci plays
- The dugout Seydou Traoré asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Marvin Hübel story refuses to die