The Basel Courier
Squad7 Apr 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dan Happe
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Basel lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Apr 2031
Basel refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 34 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.
Market7 Apr 2031
Matteo Bignetti has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Basel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Tempers go at Basel
Bećir Omeragić was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market7 Apr 2031
Juan Gauto wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Basel hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Words at Basel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javi Martínez 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.
In brief
- Squad Philip Otele has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Silvan Sommer leaves for nothing