The Basel Courier
Squad29 Sep 2031
Daniel Cummings damages knee ligaments — 133 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 133 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match29 Sep 2031
Basel are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 17 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match27 Sep 2031
No end in sight to Basel's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Basel has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 Sep 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.
Squad29 Sep 2031
Words at Basel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ibrahim Salah 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.
Squad29 Sep 2031
Granit Widmer signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Granit Widmer commits to Basel for another 4 years.
Player ratings29 Sep 2031
Philip Otele runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings29 Sep 2031
Marin Šotiček was the difference for Basel
Marked 7.78. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match27 Sep 2031
Basel draw a blank against Zurich
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Zurich defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
In brief
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Moussa Cissé
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Abubakr Barry
- Market Basel put Dirk Baron up for sale