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Uneasy
Match28 Oct 2026
Yverdon bow out of the cup
Lausanne-Sport go through and Yverdon go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Yverdon
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Yverdon are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Dixon Vera 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Yverdon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anas Bakhat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Yverdon, another week without a signature from Anas Bakhat.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Yverdon told Miguel Terceros something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Samba Só 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.
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Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Yverdon
4 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ousmane Doumbia
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Yverdon
Dejan Šorgić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yverdon are still strangers to each other
18 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Timo Königsmann
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Yverdon
Something was said to Nathan Butler-Oyedeji and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Peter Remmert at 21 — 7.77
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Peter Remmert did not need any: 7.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Yverdon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anas Bakhat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Yverdon
Nathan Butler-Oyedeji 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Peter Remmert has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Yverdon had all but put away. Étoile Carouge will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Yverdon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Yverdon
Simon Enzler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Anas Bakhat 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Yverdon
Something was said to Ashvin Balaruban and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market12 Oct 2026
No place for Kevin Martin in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kevin Martin has his answer from Yverdon; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Simon Enzler story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Simon Enzler signs something — a contract at Yverdon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Miguel Terceros arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.
Match12 Oct 2026
Yverdon have something to play for
Position 5 on 10 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Simon Enzler 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 Yverdon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Timo Königsmann
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Yverdon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dixon Vera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 35 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Yverdon is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Match5 Oct 2026
The half-term report on Yverdon
Position 5, 10 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Yverdon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
95% of the income goes out in wages at Yverdon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
Simon Enzler 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Yverdon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anas Bakhat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Rapperswil-Jona, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Simon Enzler 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Yverdon
18 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Ricardo Fernandes to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Timo Königsmann
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Dixon Vera's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Peter Remmert, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.26
A mark of 8.26 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Anas Bakhat 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Yverdon asked and Grêmio said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Fabio Saiz 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 Yverdon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Peter Remmert has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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 targets14 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Udinese is saying, and nobody at Yverdon is enjoying the guessing.
Match12 Sep 2026
Yverdon cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Anas Bakhat
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Yverdon
Samba Só 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ricardo Fernandes chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Yverdon will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 24 in, 9 out at Yverdon
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 24 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Yverdon have done the hard part with Udinese, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken William Le Pogam to Stade Lausanne-Ouchy has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Yverdon with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Anas Bakhat 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Timo Königsmann
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Ousmane Doumbia is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Samba Só signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samba Só and Yverdon agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Yverdon
Dejan Šorgić 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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Yverdon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Yverdon asked and Servette said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$1.2M was the most the club would pay and Zurich 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Santos, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Yverdon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anas Bakhat 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 dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dixon Vera, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Yverdon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Yverdon
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.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Yverdon march on in the cup
Étoile Carouge are out and Yverdon go through, 3‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Gaziantep wanted more than $4.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Yverdon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Yverdon have done the hard part with Lausanne-Sport, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Nürnberg keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Yverdon
Simon Enzler 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Yverdon asked and Vaduz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
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Market17 Aug 2026
$1.3M from Servette for Varol Tasar. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Yverdon sell a favourite for $1.3M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Varol Tasar was one of the reasons people came, and $1.3M does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No deal for Noé Sow at that price
Yverdon offered $2.6M; Sion 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Zurich 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stripfing have kept their man, and Yverdon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Yverdon have done the hard part with St. Gallen, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Yverdon
Simon Enzler and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Yverdon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anas Bakhat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$3.8M on the table at Gaziantep. 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
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Benevento keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Simon Enzler 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fabio Saiz and Yverdon agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
Neuchâtel Xamax left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Anas Bakhat 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.16, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ousmane Doumbia and Yverdon agree another 2 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SV Elversberg have kept their man, and Yverdon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Yverdon
Fabio Saiz 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Yverdon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anthony Baron was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Benevento 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Yverdon have made the call to Thun. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Fortuna Düsseldorf 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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Squad
Yverdon are still strangers to each other
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Match
Dejan Šorgić rescues a point for Yverdon
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The dugout
The view from the dugout