The Basel Courier
Market19 Jul 2027
Metinho sold, and an era ends
$16.9M from São Paulo for Metinho. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Fee done, terms next for Antonio Gomis
Basel and Vizela have settled on $4.8M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad19 Jul 2027
32 days out for Loris Embolo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Basel will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Basel sell a favourite for $16.9M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Metinho was one of the reasons people came, and $16.9M does not replace that by itself.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Basel tie Renato Vargas down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Market19 Jul 2027
Joshua Mees attracts admirers
The name of Joshua Mees has come up in conversations Basel were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Basel
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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Xherdan Mvogo joins the Basel first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Xherdan Mvogo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2027
Kevin Rieder steps up from the Basel academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Rieder has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Squad Keyan Varela in a row with a teammate
- Squad Basel are still strangers to each other
- Loan watch Giacomo Koloto counts the days