The Lugano Chronicle
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Kemal Ademi keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lugano may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Antonios Papadopoulos 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Lugano
Keigo Tsunemoto and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Lugano count the cost of losing Celso Castillo
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Hannes Delcroix 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
5 new faces, and Lugano 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.
In brief
- The dugout Albian Ajeti gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Albian Ajeti knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Beckham Castro story refuses to die
- Boardroom Lugano board back the manager