The Sion Gazette
Squad24 May 2027
Anthony Racioppi 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Rilind Nivokazi falls out with a teammate over standards
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 dugout24 May 2027
Ilyas Chouaref 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.
The dugout24 May 2027
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 dugout24 May 2027
Fodé Sylla 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 Fodé Sylla trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 May 2027
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.
In brief
- The dugout Baltazar has been promised minutes
- Loan watch Timothy Fayulu’s loan is measured in nothing happening
- Squad Cedric Widmer is out on the grass again
- Loan watch Winsley Boteli's loan at Sion nearly up