The Lugano Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
The knee: Hadj Mahmoud out for 121 days
121 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lugano lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Ezgjan Alioski out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lugano will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market8 Feb 2027
Thun come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lugano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Feb 2027
Reinaldo López asks to leave Lugano
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Lugano
David Von Ballmoos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Deadline beats Lugano to Ognjen Bondžulić
The clock did what Mladost Lucani would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Lugano
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anto Grgic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Johannes Eggestein
Lugano asked and Austria Wien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market8 Feb 2027
Lugano promote Admir Comert from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Admir Comert has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Loris Steffen joins the Lugano first team
- Loan watch Nobody is scoring past David Von Ballmoos at Lugano
- The dugout Martim Marques gets it from the manager