The Young Boys Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Sandro Lauper 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 The request is on a desk at Young Boys, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Door shut on Yanis Cimignani
Young Boys asked and Lugano said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Alan Virginius
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Young Boys say no — this time
The offer from Pescara for Facinet Conté was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Young Boys training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alvyn Sanches 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Young Boys
Kaly Sène 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Young Boys are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Matteo Soncin signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matteo Soncin commits to Young Boys for another 3 years.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Djibril Rodriguez on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Djibril Rodriguez after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Ardian Bajrami
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Loris Benito
- Market Experience through the door at Young Boys