The Servette Courier
Market19 Jul 2027
Podbrezova come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Servette did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market19 Jul 2027
Nicolas De Préville puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Servette, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Leonardo Spinazzola will not be coming to Servette
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Napoli is saying, and nobody at Servette is enjoying the guessing.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Servette
Houboulang Mendes 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Servette
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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Home is on Bradley Mazikou's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Servette are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Varol Tasar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Lazio tell Servette: Patric 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Servette promote Breel Akanji from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Breel Akanji has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Noah Seferovic steps up from the Servette academy
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Servette
- Transfer targets A loan move for Leonardo Spinazzola is in the works