The Stade Lausanne-Ouchy Chronicle
Squad7 Apr 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Anto Grgic
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stade Lausanne-Ouchy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market7 Apr 2031
Matías Ramírez 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 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Apr 2031
54 days out for Cedric Seferovic after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stade Lausanne-Ouchy will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
Emergency meeting at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Matías Ramírez 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 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy know it.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Alberto Basso Ricci signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alberto Basso Ricci and Stade Lausanne-Ouchy agree another 4 years.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
$1.3M from the owner keeps Stade Lausanne-Ouchy afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
99% of the income goes out in wages at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Stade Lausanne-Ouchy and Vincent Sierro
- The dugout Remo Freuler loses the manager who believed in him
- Market Still no signature from Daylam Meddah