Patrick Bauer

Central Defender - Vaduz
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Patrick Bauer

7 Edition

The Vaduz Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

8 matches without a win for Vaduz

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Vaduz are no longer polite ones.

Market

Patrick Bauer asks to leave Vaduz

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Vaduz

Lukas Wedl was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benoît Poulain 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.

Match

Vaduz cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

No hiding place for Stijn Keller

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Stijn Keller, and the manager let it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Vaduz

8 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Gabriele de Donno

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Vaduz and Lugano cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lugano came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Vaduz Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Vaduz

6 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.

Market

Tim-Tiado Öhri 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 Vaduz can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Vaduz

Ayo Akinola was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Vaduz against Zurich

0‑1 to Zurich, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Words at Vaduz training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benoît Poulain 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.

Squad

Patrick Bauer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Luca Mack is still paying for one afternoon at Vaduz

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Player ratings

Dominik Schwizer runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Talks stall between Vaduz and Patrick Bauer

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

4 Edition

The Vaduz Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Vaduz out of the cup

Grasshopper ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Stephan Seiler asks to leave Vaduz

“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.

Squad

A move Jack Aitchison would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jack Aitchison is living that version at Vaduz, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

No end in sight to Vaduz's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vaduz has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Ayo Akinola 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 Vaduz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Brian Beyer 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Vaduz against Thun

1‑2 to Thun, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No hiding place for Benoît Poulain

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benoît Poulain, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ayo Akinola

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief