Marked for Hugo Vandermersch
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lukas Daschner
62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. St. Gallen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Fabio Daprelà: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Gallen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
Lukas Daschner damages knee ligaments — 79 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 79 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Christian Witzig 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Manuel Lazzari 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.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Marked 7.35. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Steady
Squad27 Sep 2027
Lukas Daschner damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market27 Sep 2027
“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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad27 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Tom Gaal
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match25 Sep 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Christian Witzig’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to St. Gallen.
In brief
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Squad
Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Christian Witzig was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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Player ratings
Tom Gaal spends the afternoon fouling
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Boardroom
The St. Gallen production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market16 Aug 2027
Luzern come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and St. Gallen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad16 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market16 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Alcione Milano have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Cheveyo Tsawa. The answer from St. Gallen has not changed — yet.
Match14 Aug 2027
Three points for St. Gallen, 1‑0 the final word against Grasshopper in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hugo Vandermersch 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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
7.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. St. Gallen had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kevin Csoboth, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 52. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now St. Gallen have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Carlo Boukhalfa 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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Aliou Baldé has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lukas Daschner. 1‑0 against Basel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, St. Gallen had the best player on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a St. Gallen man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Lukas Görtler was the best thing in any of them.