The Luzern Courier
Squad24 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Leonardo Bertone
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Luzern lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jul 2028
Pascal Loretz asks to leave Luzern
“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.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Martin Stojcevic keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Luzern may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Luzern baulk at the price for Asane Sow
Basel wanted more than $1.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Luis Milla is a medical away from Luzern
The deal with Lazio is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Daniele Rugani turns down Luzern
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Fiorentina keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Luzern
Michaël Frey 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.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Lameck Banda was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Luzern
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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Luzern rebuffed over Guillermo Paiva
- Market Noah Steffen steps up from the Luzern academy
- Market Luzern promote Cedric Xhaka from within