St. Gallen U20

24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process
25 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Paul Milde

107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. St. Gallen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Tom Gaal asks to leave St. Gallen

“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

St. Gallen turn down Zurich for Tom Gaal

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

The dugout

Kemal Ademi keeps the receipts

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

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Bari tell St. Gallen: Gabriele Moncini 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.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timo Königsmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen ask about Idrissa Guèye

A loan enquiry to Udinese: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Carlo Boukhalfa 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 St. Gallen, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
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The St. Gallen Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Paul Milde out for 115 days

115 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. St. Gallen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Carlo Boukhalfa asks to leave St. Gallen

“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

St. Gallen say no — this time

The offer from Zurich for Carlo Boukhalfa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The dugout

Colin Kleine-Bekel says St. Gallen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $2.0M sale of Betim Fazliji

He is going to Basel, the club has $2.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Betim Fazliji moves on

Basel pay $2.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Michael Krmenčík rejects the move

St. Gallen had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sturm Graz, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Lukas Görtler 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen rebuffed over Juan Manuel Cruz

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

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at St. Gallen

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Boardroom

St. Gallen spell it out for Christian Shaqiri

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Christian Shaqiri has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Christian Witzig puts it in writing

“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 St. Gallen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Squad

Yannick Bujard is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets

Bournemouth tell St. Gallen: Agustín Fontana 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.

Market

Basel join the queue for Betim Fazliji

Add another name to the list: Basel have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Betim Fazliji. The answer from St. Gallen has not changed — yet.

Squad

Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timo Königsmann 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.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen try to borrow Kenny Quetant

Werder Bremen 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.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at St. Gallen spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

St. Gallen are in real trouble now

Position 10, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Squad

Timo Königsmann 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.

Squad

Home is on Ángel Guerra's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; St. Gallen are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mihailo Stevanović

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Tom Gaal talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. St. Gallen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

When it matters, Antonio Verinac plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

A door opens for Fabian Frei

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Lukas Watkowiak: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Gallen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Real improvement from Ángel Guerra at St. Gallen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ángel Guerra is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at St. Gallen

Ryan Andrews 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.

Squad

Lawrence Ati-Zigi 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.

Squad

5 new faces, and St. Gallen 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.

Market

The Jozo Stanić question follows St. Gallen around

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

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Lukas Görtler 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Denis Aebischer steps up from the St. Gallen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denis Aebischer has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Philipp Gavranovic steps up from the St. Gallen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Philipp Gavranovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timo Königsmann 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.

Squad

St. Gallen lose Cristian Carrara

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Christoph Zimmermann asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Christian Witzig hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what St. Gallen can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at St. Gallen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at St. Gallen is running low.

The dugout

Corsin Konietzke says St. Gallen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timo Königsmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Cristian Carrara is the division's best young player this month

At 18 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. St. Gallen will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Squad

Colin Kleine-Bekel slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Colin Kleine-Bekel is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Behar Neziri

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Carlo Boukhalfa knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Carlo Boukhalfa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at St. Gallen has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

St. Gallen are in real trouble now

Position 10, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Colin Kleine-Bekel

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lawrence Ati-Zigi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Carlo Boukhalfa asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

A promise honoured at St. Gallen

Something was said to Lawrence Ati-Zigi and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Market

The Tom Gaal talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. St. Gallen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Antonio Verinac has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at St. Gallen will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

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23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for St. Gallen

1‑2 against Luzern, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Enoch Owusu was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. 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.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timo Königsmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fabian Frei

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

Squad

8 new faces, and St. Gallen 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

Christian Shaqiri answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Víctor Villasanti signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Víctor Villasanti and St. Gallen agree another 4 years.

The dugout

Lukas Görtler does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Tom Gaal puts it in writing

“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 St. Gallen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Lukas Görtler 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Carlo Boukhalfa 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.

Squad

Timo Königsmann 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.

Squad

St. Gallen lose Cristian Carrara

47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

St. Gallen keep their word to Carlo Boukhalfa

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

Paul Milde signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Paul Milde and St. Gallen agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Christian Shaqiri on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The drought breaks for St. Gallen

14 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Thun were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Player ratings

Cristian Carrara, 18, steals the show — 7.97

Marked 7.97 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Lukas Watkowiak says St. Gallen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Match

Lukas Daschner the difference as St. Gallen beat Thun

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lukas Daschner. 2‑1 against Thun, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Aliou Baldé

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

Kevin Xhaka steps up from the St. Gallen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kevin Xhaka has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Andrin Hunziker stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrin Hunziker and St. Gallen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lawrence Ati-Zigi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

14 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for St. Gallen

14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces

Anger at St. Gallen spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

St. Gallen sink to position 10

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Christian Witzig hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what St. Gallen can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Carlo Boukhalfa beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Timo Königsmann 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.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Ryan Andrews and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for St. Gallen

Thun next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kemal Ademi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout

Betim Fazliji says St. Gallen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timo Königsmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Lawrence Ati-Zigi 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Christoph Zimmermann 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.

Match

Luzern snatch it back from St. Gallen

A goal on 94 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at St. Gallen

17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match

St. Gallen and Luzern take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

A hiding for St. Gallen

Beaten 1‑4 by Young Boys, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Tom Gaal puts it in writing

“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 St. Gallen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Lukas Görtler 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Luzern

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. St. Gallen know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

The dugout

No hiding place for Fabian Frei

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the St. Gallen dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lawrence Ati-Zigi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

11 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Market

Carlo Boukhalfa is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at St. Gallen has been clear about where Carlo Boukhalfa stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market

Loris Akanji steps up from the St. Gallen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Loris Akanji has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match

St. Gallen come up short against Grasshopper

Grasshopper left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Lawrence Ati-Zigi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lawrence Ati-Zigi and St. Gallen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Timo Königsmann 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.

Player ratings

Christian Witzig was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Christian Shaqiri left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

10 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Aliou Baldé

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

10 matches without a win for St. Gallen

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around St. Gallen are no longer polite ones.

Match

St. Gallen sink to position 9

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Christian Witzig hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what St. Gallen can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Match

St. Gallen come up short against Vaduz

Vaduz left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timo Königsmann 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Christian Shaqiri left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Tiemoko Ouattara

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Tiemoko Ouattara has come out of that comparison in the side, and St. Gallen have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

9 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Colin Kleine-Bekel

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Halfway: St. Gallen sit in position 9

5 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at St. Gallen

15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Lawrence Ati-Zigi 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.

Match

St. Gallen and Lugano take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Christian Shaqiri: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

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The St. Gallen Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Tom Gaal hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what St. Gallen can pretend not to have heard.

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Squad

Lukas Görtler 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Andrea Invernizzi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrea Invernizzi has just signed for St. Gallen, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timo Königsmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Timo Königsmann

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

The dugout

Christian Shaqiri on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Christian Shaqiri after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Timo Königsmann dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Lugano watching Betim Fazliji

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

Match

A bad afternoon for St. Gallen against Zurich

0‑1 to Zurich, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Gallen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Timo Königsmann was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Ryan Andrews 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Christian Shaqiri to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Cristian Carrara is a square peg at St. Gallen

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

The Tom Gaal question follows St. Gallen around

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

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Christian Witzig asks to leave St. Gallen

“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.

Match

Every point is an argument now for St. Gallen

Position 9 and 3 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.

Transfer targets

Luzern tell St. Gallen: Matteo di Giusto 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.

Match

6 matches without a win for St. Gallen

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around St. Gallen are no longer polite ones.

Market

St. Gallen say no — this time

The offer from Zurich for Behar Neziri was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 24 in, 1 out at St. Gallen

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 24 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Player ratings

Kemal Ademi has a hand in both — 7.45

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.45, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Match

A bad afternoon for St. Gallen against Thun

3‑4 to Thun, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match

Lukas Görtler among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Lukas Görtler on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of St. Gallen and Thun.

In brief

5 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé 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.

Market

St. Gallen turn down Lugano for Betim Fazliji

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

Match

The wait goes on for St. Gallen

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

4 matches without a goal for St. Gallen

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

Eyes on Behar Neziri again

The phone has started ringing about Behar Neziri again, and this time the name on the line is Zurich. St. Gallen are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen rebuffed over Lucas Varaldo

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

Match

A bad afternoon for St. Gallen against Basel

0‑1 to Basel, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

200 appearances for Hugo Vandermersch

200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

In brief

4 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 32. 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.

Transfer targets

Young Boys tell St. Gallen: Ryan Andrews 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.

Transfer targets

Mikael Ishak turns down St. Gallen

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Lech keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Match

No end in sight to St. Gallen's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at St. Gallen has to find a result from somewhere.

Transfer targets

Too dear: St. Gallen walk away from Ahmed Kendouci

$640.0K was the most the club would pay and Lugano were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Lukas Görtler 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 St. Gallen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

3 matches without a goal for St. Gallen

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.

Squad

Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Timo Königsmann 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.

The dugout

Fabian Frei 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

3 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

St. Gallen turn down Young Boys for Lukas Görtler

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

Transfer targets

An offer of $7.4M for Mao Hosoya

St. Gallen have gone to Kashiwa Reysol with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

An offer of $640.0K for Ahmed Kendouci

St. Gallen have gone to Lugano with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market

Business is business: Malamine Efekele goes

Basel paid $1.3M and St. Gallen took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen baulk at the price for Ashvin Balaruban

Thun wanted more than $860.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Moctar Diop

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

The dugout

Carlo Boukhalfa 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for St. Gallen against Young Boys

0‑1 to Young Boys, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

2 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

St. Gallen turn down Young Boys for Hugo Vandermersch

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

Player ratings

Aliou Baldé runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen bid $860.0K for Ashvin Balaruban

The offer went to Thun 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.

Squad

Lukas Görtler signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lukas Görtler and St. Gallen agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Lukas Görtler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Steven Gavranovic steps up from the St. Gallen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Steven Gavranovic has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Xherdan Schär steps up from the St. Gallen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Xherdan Schär has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

St. Gallen promote Silvan Shaqiri from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Silvan Shaqiri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

Timo Königsmann 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The St. Gallen Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Hugo Vandermersch goes up and wins it — 7.73

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.73 for the rest of it.

Player ratings

Christian Witzig runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Christian Witzig signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christian Witzig and St. Gallen agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at St. Gallen

Christian Witzig and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

49 months and counting on Jozo Stanić

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

Squad

7 new faces, and St. Gallen 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Gustavo Varela is in the works

St. Gallen have made the call to Monza. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen try to borrow Moctar Diop

KAA Gent 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.

Market

No place for Betim Fazliji in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Betim Fazliji has his answer from St. Gallen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief