The Lugano Chronicle
Market24 Jul 2028
Terms done: Santiago Puzzo is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Rapperswil-Jona waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lugano is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Uran Bislimi keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lugano may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market24 Jul 2028
Mattia Bottani asks to leave Lugano
“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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Wil come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lugano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Ahmed Kendouci frozen out at Lugano
This is not rotation. Ahmed Kendouci has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Lugano is pretending otherwise.
Match22 Jul 2028
The wait goes on for Lugano
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Lugano
Hannes Delcroix 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.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Lugano
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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Renato Steffen makes it 500
500 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
In brief
- Squad Renato Steffen falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Beckham Castro
- Market Granit Schär steps up from the Lugano academy