The Aarau Sentinel
Squad12 Jul 2027
70 days out for Leon Frokaj after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aarau will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Jul 2027
Aarau sell Daniel Afriyie Barnieh for $2.3M
Daniel Afriyie Barnieh has left for Grasshopper in a $2.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market12 Jul 2027
Thomás Chacón moves on
St. Gallen pay $1.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Aarau
Ibrahima Cissé 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Aarau
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Remo Arnold was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Coventry City tell Aarau: Oliver Dovin is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market12 Jul 2027
One of our own: Denis Comert joins the Aarau first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denis Comert is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Jul 2027
Remo Xhaka steps up from the Aarau academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Remo Xhaka 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Mamadou Fofana wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Aarau know it.
In brief
- Transfer targets Aarau try to borrow Sekou Diawara
- Transfer targets Aarau ask about Mattia Fortin
- Transfer targets A loan move for Alessio Cacciamani is in the works