Haris Comert

Left Wingback - Basel
21 Aug 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Haris Comert

86 Edition

The Basel Courier

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Basel say no — this time

The offer from IFK Mariehamn for Luka Mikulić was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Dion Kacuri for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Basel will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Haris Comert is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A falling-out at Basel

Adrian Rus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Ibrahim Salah has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Basel 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 dugout

No hiding place for Asane Sow

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asane Sow, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Basel Courier

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

No hiding place for Giacomo Koloto

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giacomo Koloto, and the manager let it.

Squad

Haris Comert signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Haris Comert and Basel agree another 4 years.

The dugout

Ibrahim Salah gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ibrahim Salah is on it.

Market

Basel put Metinho up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Metinho may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market

Bećir Omeragić linked with a move away

The name of Bećir Omeragić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Basel say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

Žan Celar keeps scoring at Darmstadt 98

20 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch

Elias Pihlström keeps scoring at FC Fredericia

21 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

The dugout

Junior Zé asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Adrian Rus remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Basel would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief