The Aarau Sentinel
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Edimilson Aebischer
22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aarau lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market25 Jan 2027
Nassim Zoukit asks to leave Aarau
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Aarau
Ibrahima Cissé 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Aarau
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Remo Arnold was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Mamadou Fofana asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mamadou Fofana has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Aarau that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes Izer Aliu a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Aarau. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market25 Jan 2027
The Dorian Derbaci question follows Aarau around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Dorian Derbaci’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market25 Jan 2027
Binjamin Hasani placed on the list
Aarau have made Binjamin Hasani available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Remo Arnold
- Market Ramon Guzzo goes looking for football