Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stade Nyonnais they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gerrit Gohlke commits to Stade Nyonnais for another 4 years.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Sutter 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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stade Nyonnais will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Felipe Borges will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stade Nyonnais the goodbyes have quietly begun.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrick Sutter and Stade Nyonnais agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Nicola Sutter and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Sutter 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.
The offer from Tiszakécske for Fabio Polinari 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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stade Nyonnais is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Stade Nyonnais asked and St. Gallen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Behar Neziri 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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Stade Nyonnais are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Burak Alili 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 system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
In brief
The dugoutBurak Alili asks for a word with the manager
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Servette keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stade Nyonnais is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Salah-Dine El Mezouari is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Felipe Borges has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Mardochée Miguel 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.
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.
Stade Nyonnais asked and St. Gallen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Victor Petit 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stade Nyonnais, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Edin Omeragic signs something — a contract at Stade Nyonnais or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Stade Nyonnais. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Fabio Polinari has just signed for Stade Nyonnais, and for once the answer mattered.
Nicola Sutter 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.
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felipe Borges 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.
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Simon Steffen after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Stade Nyonnais are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Sutter was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stade Nyonnais, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Edin Omeragic signs something — a contract at Stade Nyonnais or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Stade Nyonnais can tell you which week it ends in.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Felipe Borges was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Stade Nyonnais will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Nicola Sutter 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.
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Sutter 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.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Everybody at Stade Nyonnais saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Nyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felipe Borges 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.
Marked 7.26. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Simon Steffen was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Stade Nyonnais dressing room was either.
Joris Manquant is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Étoile Carouge defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Words at Stade Nyonnais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Sutter 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.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Stade Lausanne-Ouchy scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
A 1‑1 draw with Stade Lausanne-Ouchy leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Simon Steffen chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Étoile Carouge in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Edin Omeragic signs something — a contract at Stade Nyonnais or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Nobody at Stade Nyonnais is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stade Nyonnais have done the hard part with Lugano, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Nyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Sutter was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Edin Omeragic, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Simon Steffen left the room before anybody could ask which.
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Stade Nyonnais are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Yverdon will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Patrick Sutter was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Stade Nyonnais asked and St. Pölten said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Add another name to the list: Sion have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Joris Manquant. The answer from Stade Nyonnais has not changed — yet.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nicola Sutter has, at Stade Nyonnais, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Luzern keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Edin Omeragic is a Stade Nyonnais player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Nyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Breel Benito has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Admir Kobel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruben Zakaria has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.