Noah Moretti

Striker - Sion
16 May 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Noah Moretti

190 Edition

The Sion Gazette

18 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Franck Surdez 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

Ilyas Chouaref 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 Ilyas Chouaref trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

No hiding place for Noah Moretti

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

In brief

Back issues
183 Edition

The Sion Gazette

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Noel Caliskan 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 Sion can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Davide Guglielmotti out for 82 days

The medical room confirms 82 days on the sidelines for Davide Guglielmotti, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Franck Surdez 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.

In brief

154 Edition

The Sion Gazette

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Ilyas Chouaref 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

Andrii Chepurnyi gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Franck Surdez is doing the arithmetic

The table has started to be checked before the results are in, and that is always the tell. Nobody at Sion says the word out loud, and everybody in the building is thinking it.

In brief

147 Edition

The Sion Gazette

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Ilyas Chouaref 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

Noah Moretti 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 Noah Moretti trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

No hiding place for Stan Held

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

In brief

  • Squad The manager plants his flag on Baltazar
140 Edition

The Sion Gazette

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Noah Moretti keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sion may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Ilyas Chouaref 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 Sion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Winsley Boteli’s exile

10 goals in 31 games at Tours — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Sion updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

In brief

121 Edition

The Sion Gazette

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Sion are in real trouble now

Position 9, 12 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.

Squad

Bachir Ngom says Sion went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Andrii Chepurnyi 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

Ilyas Chouaref 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.

Match

Sion come up short against Grasshopper

Grasshopper left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Franck Surdez runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Sion count the cost of losing Mario Schär

24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

The team sheet said everything about Noel Caliskan

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Noel Caliskan.

Player ratings

Noé Sow leaves them behind him

Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

119 Edition

The Sion Gazette

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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

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

Squad

Cedric Zakaria keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sion may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Sion

Ilyas Chouaref 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 ratings

Liam Chipperfield runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Rilind Nivokazi

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Josias Lukembila

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Gabriele Mulazzi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gabriele Mulazzi commits to Sion for another 3 years.

Market

Sion buy the years ahead of Noah Moretti

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.

Match

Sion and Lugano 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.

In brief

100 Edition

The Cesena Chronicle

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Cesena

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Cesena say no — this time

The offer from Giugliano for Noah Moretti was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Morten Frendrup 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 Cesena this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Mathieu Deplagne

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

Market

The Omar Traoré story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Omar Traoré signs something — a contract at Cesena or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Alberto Cerri has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Alberto Cerri keeps the shirt for now, at Cesena's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

99 Edition

The Cesena Chronicle

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Modena come back empty-handed

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

Squad

Marco Olivieri keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cesena may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Cesena get their man

The chase for Bruno Valenti ended with $490.0K changing hands and Monopoli out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Tempers go at Cesena

Morten Frendrup 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.

Market

The Noah Moretti conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Forli will make the call about Noah Moretti this week. Cesena have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Noah Moretti

“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.

In brief