Jesper Löfgren

Central Defender - Luzern
8 Aug 2027
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30 Edition

The Luzern Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tyron Owusu 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 Luzern this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Severin Ottiger

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Severin Ottiger, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

Bung Meng Freimann has seen enough of Sion

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Luzern, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

6 new faces, and Luzern 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.

The dugout

Severin Ottiger is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

The Sinan Karweina question follows Luzern around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sinan Karweina’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Luzern Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Matteo di Giusto sold

Mainz 05 arrived with $15.6M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Match

Luzern bow out of the cup

Zurich go through and Luzern go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Luzern

Position 10 and 21 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Adrian Grbić asks to leave Luzern

“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.

Market

Stade Lausanne-Ouchy come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Luzern did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The dugout

Stefan Knežević keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Luzern may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Kevin Martin

Luzern and Yverdon have settled on $430.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

The terraces

A $15.6M sale, and a town that did not want it

Matteo di Giusto has gone, the accounts have $15.6M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Boardroom

Luzern to lose Rúben Dantas Fernandes for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Rúben Dantas Fernandes 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.

In brief