The Stade Nyonnais Chronicle
The terraces31 Jan 2028
Anger at Stade Nyonnais spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match31 Jan 2028
Stade Nyonnais are in real trouble now
Position 8, 18 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market31 Jan 2028
Hadj Mahmoud hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stade Nyonnais can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
The paperwork begins on Giannis Gitersos
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stade Nyonnais have done the hard part with Étoile Carouge, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Hadj Mahmoud wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Stade Nyonnais know it.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Loun Srdanovic 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.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Hadj Mahmoud
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Johan Kury 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 Stade Nyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Jan 2028
Stade Nyonnais buy the years ahead of Noah Duclieu
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Noah Duclieu behind
- The dugout Aurélien Chappuis knocks on the manager's door
- Market Still no ink between Stade Nyonnais and Noah Duclieu