The Neuchâtel Xamax Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
7 saves: Simon Enzler was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jason Gnakpa arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jason Gnakpa has, at Neuchâtel Xamax, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Kevin Bua yet — 8.17
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sambou Camara due for a Neuchâtel Xamax medical
Everything agreed with Winterthur, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jessé Hautier is a Neuchâtel Xamax player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Neuchâtel Xamax
Thibault Corbaz 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kevin Bua stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Bua and Neuchâtel Xamax agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Baltazar
Neuchâtel Xamax asked and Sion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Aug 2026
Neuchâtel Xamax find a way past Yverdon
Yverdon made Neuchâtel Xamax work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Vincent Nvendo
- Market One of our own: Loris Shaqiri joins the Neuchâtel Xamax first team
- Market Neuchâtel Xamax promote Remo Sommer from within