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The Basel Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Philip Otele was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 34. 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Basel pay Banik Ostrava $4.2M for a proper upgrade

Banik Ostrava did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $4.2M for Martin Jedlička, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Mamelodi Sundowns tell Basel: Teboho Mokoena is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market10 Aug 2026

Eyes on Metinho again

The phone has started ringing about Metinho again, and this time the name on the line is Thun. Basel are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No deal for Malamine Efekele at that price

Basel offered $1.5M; St. Gallen said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market10 Aug 2026

Basel turn down Luzern for Andrej Bačanin

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Metinho signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Metinho and Basel agree another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Metinho 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 Basel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

The town asked, and Basel paid $4.2M

Martin Jedlička was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $4.2M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

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The Basel Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Basel bid $4.2M for Martin Jedlička

The offer went to Banik Ostrava this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Philip Otele runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market3 Aug 2026

Basel may not be able to give Metinho what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Metinho wants continental football; whether Basel can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Xherdan Shaqiri signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Xherdan Shaqiri and Basel agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Basel

Metinho 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Benji Siegrist is a Basel 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Basel 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 dugout3 Aug 2026

Metinho knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Basel, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Marvin Akahomen gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief