The Lugano Chronicle
Market4 Jan 2027
Lukas Mai 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 The request is on a desk at Lugano, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
Vaduz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lugano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mattia Zanotti 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 Lugano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jan 2027
Eyes on Hadj Mahmoud again
The phone has started ringing about Hadj Mahmoud again, and this time the name on the line is Luzern. Lugano are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Lugano training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renato Steffen 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Serif Berbic has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Squad The Lugano dressing room has split into 3 groups
- Market Lugano pick up Diogo for nothing
- Loan watch Beckham Castro first choice at Nimes