The Basel Courier
Market30 Jan 2034
Terms done: Rayane Bounida is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Servette waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Basel is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market30 Jan 2034
Christos Mandas asks to leave Basel
“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.
Market30 Jan 2034
Iliya Gruev is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Basel is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Jan 2034
Words exchanged at Basel
Pedro and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market30 Jan 2034
Fréderic Soelle Soelle attracts admirers
The name of Fréderic Soelle Soelle has come up in conversations Basel were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets30 Jan 2034
Door shut on Federico Zuccon
Basel asked and Lausanne-Sport said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad30 Jan 2034
Denis Comert out for 33 days
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Denis Comert, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout30 Jan 2034
A promise honoured at Basel
Something was said to Carlos Forbs and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad30 Jan 2034
Words at Basel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Augusto Bando is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Loan watch Bogdan Mihaila has seen enough of ETO Győr
- The dugout Carlos Forbs gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Andy Diouf knocks on the manager’s door