The Young Boys Chronicle
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Alan Virginius runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kevin Mbabu 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 Young Boys this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alvyn Sanches 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Xherdan Steffen joins the Young Boys first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Xherdan Steffen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Young Boys promote Xherdan Vargas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Xherdan Vargas has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gregory Wüthrich 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.
In brief
- Squad Kevin Mbabu has become a man the manager trusts
- Match Young Boys and Zurich cancel each other out
- Market The Samuel Essende story refuses to die