The Lugano Chronicle
Squad14 Apr 2036
Bryan Gil 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 Lugano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
Daniel Bąk gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Apr 2036
15 new faces, and Lugano are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
Asane Sow has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Lugano will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
Hylke van der Mast knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hylke van der Mast trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
The manager makes Derryl Hupsel a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Lugano. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Hylke van der Mast
- Squad Maciej Kuziemka has settled at Lugano
- Loan watch Luiz Fabiano's loan at Yverdon nearly up
- Squad Cedric Comert back in training