The Stade Lausanne-Ouchy Chronicle
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Brahian Ayala
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stade Lausanne-Ouchy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Supporters organise against the Stade Lausanne-Ouchy board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market19 Jul 2027
Adonis Ajeti puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
No thanks: Thibault Rambaud rejects the move
Stade Lausanne-Ouchy had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at FC Annecy, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Léo Seydoux in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudio Kammerknecht was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Stade Lausanne-Ouchy rebuffed over Sekou Diawara
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zurich have kept their man, and Stade Lausanne-Ouchy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Xherdan Benito joins the Stade Lausanne-Ouchy first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Xherdan Benito is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Admir Comert steps up from the Stade Lausanne-Ouchy academy
- Market One of our own: Silvan Shaqiri joins the Stade Lausanne-Ouchy first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Simon Enzler