Denis Comert

Central Defender - Basel U20
9 Apr 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Denis Comert

392 Edition

The Basel Courier

30 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
388 Edition

The Basel Courier

2 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Christos Mandas hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Basel can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Lorenzo Colombo: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Basel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Basel rebuffed over David Nogueira

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Náutico have kept their man, and Basel go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

The season belongs to Pedro

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Basel have had the benefit of it.

Match

Basel make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Basel have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad

Andrés Cuenca gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrés Cuenca has just signed for Basel, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Aarau join the queue for Rayane Bounida

Add another name to the list: Aarau have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rayane Bounida. The answer from Basel has not changed — yet.

Market

Basel say no — this time

The offer from Mirandés for Iván López 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.

Market

Arnau Puigmal has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Basel they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief