Adrien Llukes

Central Midfielder - Sion U20
12 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Adrien Llukes

55 Edition

The Sion Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Winsley Boteli says no to Slovan Liberec

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Winsley Boteli had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Match

No end in sight to Sion's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sion has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Josias Lukembila was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

Vegalta Sendai come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sion did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Metinho 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.

Squad

Words at Sion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rilind Nivokazi 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.

Squad

Adrien Llukes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrien Llukes and Sion agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Nias Hefti

7.54, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sion had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Sion

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

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45 Edition

The Sion Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Anthony Racioppi attracts admirers

The name of Anthony Racioppi has come up in conversations Sion were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Alessandro Signorini asks to leave Sion

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Rilind Nivokazi 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.

Squad

Words at Sion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franck Surdez 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.

Squad

Sion lose Liam Chipperfield

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jan Kronig

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jan Kronig, and the manager let it.

Squad

Orlando Mareco wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sion can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Baltazar'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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Armel Bella-Kotchap is in the works

Sion have made the call to Venezia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

39 Edition

The Sion Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A falling-out at Sion

Rilind Nivokazi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Sion training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Franck Surdez 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.

Market

Marquinhos Cipriano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Adrien Llukes signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adrien Llukes commits to Sion for another 5 years.

The dugout

Josias Lukembila 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 Josias Lukembila is on it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Orlando Mareco

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Orlando Mareco, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Vasilije Janjičić 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 Vasilije Janjičić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Donat Rrudhani linked with a move away

The name of Donat Rrudhani keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sion say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Ilyas Chouaref has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ilyas Chouaref has written the date down.

In brief