Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stade Nyonnais will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Position 2, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
David Jaćović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valentin Guillaume 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.
“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 Stade Nyonnais, and 5 appearances in 20 say he has earned the hearing.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nehemie Lusuena scored, was marked 7.98, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valentin Guillaume was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nehemie Lusuena. 2‑1 against Stade Lausanne-Ouchy, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yann Llahona and Stade Nyonnais agree another 4 years.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Stade Nyonnais told Filip Frei something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Djibril Akanji could afford to be generous.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stade Nyonnais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Wil pay $180.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valentin Guillaume 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.
Quincy Hoquee and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Djibril Akanji left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Edin Omeragic is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
In brief
Squad5 new faces, and Stade Nyonnais are still learning each other
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stade Nyonnais, and it is not being withdrawn.
David Jaćović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valentin Guillaume 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lausanne-Sport have kept their man, and Stade Nyonnais go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Stade Nyonnais have made the call to Young Boys. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stade Nyonnais, and it is not being withdrawn.
David Jaćović and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.