St. Gallen U20

15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
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The St. Gallen Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

St. Gallen say no — this time

The offer from Young Boys for Christian Witzig 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.

Market

Enoch Owusu has said yes to Sion

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. St. Gallen have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.3M for Ilyas Chouaref

St. Gallen have gone to Sion 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.

Player ratings

Tiemoko Ouattara, 21, steals the show — 7.71

Marked 7.71 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

St. Gallen rebuffed over Anthony Racioppi

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

Transfer targets

Gustavo Varela will not be coming to St. Gallen

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Monza is saying, and nobody at St. Gallen is enjoying the guessing.

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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Sandro Lauper at that price

St. Gallen offered $860.0K; Young Boys 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.

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.

In brief

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The St. Gallen Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

St. Gallen say no — this time

The offer from Austria Wien 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.

Player ratings

Christian Witzig 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.

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.

Squad

Words at St. Gallen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chima Okoroji 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 rebuffed over Geovanni Vianney

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

Market

Enoch Owusu attracts admirers

The name of Enoch Owusu has come up in conversations St. Gallen were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

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.

In brief