The Lugano Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Lugano turn down Spezia for Mattia Zanotti
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Kevin Behrens's — 8.79
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Servette tell Lugano: Lamine Fomba is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.0M for Nikolas Muci
Lugano 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Lugano go back to the board over Nikolas Muci
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Nikolas Muci enough to be asked twice.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Beckham Castro has agreed to leave Lugano for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Renato Steffen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Renato Steffen commits to Lugano for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lugano
Mattia Zanotti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
Kevin Behrens sends Lugano past Luzern
It finished 2‑1, and it was Kevin Behrens’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lugano.
In brief
- The dugout Mattia Zanotti gets it from the manager
- Market One of our own: Steven Seferovic joins the Lugano first team
- Market One of our own: Granit Comert joins the Lugano first team