“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Stade Lausanne-Ouchy know it.
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 Lausanne-Ouchy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy can tell you which week it ends in.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Stade Lausanne-Ouchy told Carmine Chiappetta something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy has to find a result from somewhere.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabio Di Michele Sánchez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout19 Oct 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.” Haris Steffen chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
The dugoutDavide Barosi asks for a word with the manager
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy has to find a result from somewhere.
1 for Ethan Bruchez, marked 7.39, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Fabian Frei 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Di Michele Sánchez 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.
Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Stade Lausanne-Ouchy had all but put away. Wil will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Steven Gavranovic and Stade Lausanne-Ouchy agree another 3 years.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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.
Minute 90, against Stade Nyonnais, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Vaduz go through and Stade Lausanne-Ouchy go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Julius Kade has, at Stade Lausanne-Ouchy, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
“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 Stade Lausanne-Ouchy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Fabian Frei 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.
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Michaël Frey was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carmine Chiappetta 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.