The Bellinzona Sentinel
Match24 Jul 2027
Still nobody has beaten Bellinzona
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Fodé Sylla due for a Bellinzona medical
Everything agreed with Sion, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Bafodé Dansoko 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 Bellinzona this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tanguy Zoukrou 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
Door shut on Marco Bürki
Bellinzona asked and Thun said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
The game went through Bafodé Dansoko — 7.14
Marked 7.14 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Edimilson Comert out for 31 days
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Edimilson Comert, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Yassine Bouchama makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Julio González
“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
- The dugout The form table has caught Vasilije Janjičić
- Match Bellinzona and Lugano take a point apiece
- The dugout Silvan Steffen on the point