The Étoile Carouge Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$1.7M settles it between the clubs for Keyan Varela
Servette have accepted the money. What Étoile Carouge do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Théo Barbet arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Théo Barbet has, at Étoile Carouge, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.1M for Michaël Frey
Étoile Carouge have gone to Grasshopper with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Luca Sestito is a Étoile Carouge player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aurélien Chappuis is a Étoile Carouge player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Étoile Carouge
Théo Bouchlarhem and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Étoile Carouge baulk at the price for Mayka Okuka
Lausanne-Sport wanted more than $210.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Étoile Carouge
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicola Sutter was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Andrej Bačanin
Étoile Carouge asked and Basel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Albian Steffen joins the Étoile Carouge first team
- Market Kevin Comert steps up from the Étoile Carouge academy
- Player ratings Rijad Saliji was unplayable