The Sion Gazette | Open Football Simulator

2 Edition

10 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match8 Aug 2026

Sion run riot against Thun

4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Franck Surdez scores twice — 8.29

Two goals and a mark of 8.29 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sion agree $1.6M for Corsin Konietzke

The clubs have shaken hands with St. Gallen; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

A $4.8M sale, and a town that did not want it

Anthony Racioppi has gone, the accounts have $4.8M 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sion make their move for Petter Nosa Dahl

$3.0M on the table at Rapid Wien. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market10 Aug 2026

Business is business: Anthony Racioppi goes

Heidenheim paid $4.8M and Sion took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market10 Aug 2026

Eyes on Ilyas Chouaref again

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sion rebuffed over Hannes Delcroix

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lugano have kept their man, and Sion go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Josias Lukembila

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Squad Rilind Nivokazi signs on for more
Squad Words exchanged at Sion
The dugout Noé Sow gets it from the manager

1 Edition

3 Aug 2026

From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market3 Aug 2026

Heidenheim watching Anthony Racioppi

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sion have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Samuel Marques

Sion asked and Grasshopper said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ali Kabacalman signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ali Kabacalman commits to Sion for another 3 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Anthony Racioppi 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 Sion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Franck Surdez falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Marquinhos Cipriano has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Sion can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market3 Aug 2026

36 months and counting on Ali Kabacalman

Still no offer on the table, and Ali Kabacalman’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Sion try to borrow Ivo Mammini

Gimnasia La Plata have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sion are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Franck Surdez
The dugout Anthony Racioppi knocks on the manager's door
The dugout The manager’s verdict