The Sion Gazette
Match30 Oct 2034
Sion sink to position 12
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market30 Oct 2034
Silas Huber 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 Sion can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Oct 2034
Cristian Carrara is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Leonidas Stergiou in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Words at Sion training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Loun Srdanovic 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.
Looking ahead30 Oct 2034
Everything rides on Luzern
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Sion know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
Market30 Oct 2034
Joris Manquant is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sion has been clear about where Joris Manquant stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Sion count the cost of losing Cedric Freuler
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Too much change too quickly at Sion
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Iván Morante plays
- The dugout A promise honoured for Jens Mathijsen
- The dugout Loun Srdanovic knocks on the manager's door