November 5 17:45 Lausanne Sports ? - ? Basel 17:45 Thun ? - ? Lucerne November 6 16:00 Grasshoppers ? - ? Sion 16:00 Neuchatel Xamax ? - ? Zurich 16:00 Servette ? - ? Young Boys Bern Can Servette keep their little run going? Will LS ever win again? Can Thun stop their free-fall? Will GCZ ever score again? Can FCZ overcome the disappointing Lazio loss? Tune into the ASL this week to find out.
Basel with a 2-3 win in Lausanne and Thun winning again thanks to Schrinzi 3-1 vs Lucerne TSR investigated about Chagaev's bank guarantee and it looks to be false - according to them it's written in approx. English, not in business terms and the date was not written the american way... so they went to NY to see somebody at Bank of America and they confirmed the people who signed the document is not known at Bank of America and they started an investigation vs Chagaev
November 5 FT Lausanne Sports 2 - 3 Basel FT Thun 3 - 1 Lucerne November 6 FT Grasshoppers 2 - 1 Sion FT Neuchatel Xamax 3 - 1 Zurich FT Servette 1 - 0 Young Boys Bern 1. Basel 15 +19 31 2. Luzern 15 +11 28 3. Sion 15 +7 26 4. YB 15 +10 25 5. NE Xamax 15 0 22 6. Servette 15 -1 21 7. Thun 15 -2 19 8. Zürich 14 -1 14 9. GC 14 -19 13 10. Lausanne-Sport 15 -24 8 The real surprise of the weekend was GCZ winning over Sion.
This is not good for the Xamax: http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-chechenowner-forgery The bankruptcy hearing in Neuchatel was forced by a creditor who claims he is owed 400,000 Swiss francs ($446,000) from the offseason sale of defender Freddy Mveng to league rival Young Boys. A judge declined to put Xamax into financial administration after Chagaev provided a letter attesting he had money to keep the club in business. Geneva daily Le Matin and TSR claimed to have copies of the alleged Bank of America letter, which they said had too many errors to be authentic. The published documents contained poor English grammar, the September date and $35 million figure written in European style rather than American, and an address in West 33rd Street, New York, which had ceased to be an office of the bank. Looks like Xamax is finished. To bad the club has been a good one.
police searched Chagaev's offices and house but there is no sign of him then there is a new procedure vs Chagaev from the football association with regards to the september salaries as he hasn't sent the proof and there is another procedure started for money laundering Chagaev himself seems to be on the run while his lawyer left Xamax *** besides there is a procedure vs Sion started by the swiss football association on pressure of FIFA. Otherwise, Switzerland would maybe have been banned from playing the friendlies vs the Netherlands and Luxembourg
There has got to be a lot more control measures taken on potential club-buyers in the future. This is really casts a shadow on the already bad-standing SFV (and Switzerland as a financial centre of the world). Thomas Grimm's days are over in a week or so, I'm really hoping for a good replacement.
Intersting summary of Swiss league soccer at the moment. http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=reu-europeswiss_analysis
one more about Sion http://www.blick.ch/sport/fussball/superleague/fifa-fordert-forfait-pleiten-fuer-sion-186749
Xamax: FIFA director Gagg might help them. Already SFL paid a bill for Xamax for the stadium screen and Chagaev paid the October salaries Sion: the court in Valais has to answer SFL's protest this week GC vs FCZ: the decision is announced this week
Very interesting read about Xamax. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/...11116/chechen-oligarch-buys-swiss-soccer-team
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=afp-fbl_sui_xamax_chagaev_20111117 The hits just keep coming: "Bulat Chagaev, the controversial Chechen owner of Swiss top-flight club Neuchatel Xamax, does not have a valid residence permit to live in Switzerland, the newspaper Le Matin reported on Thursday. Chagaev, who is under investigation in Switzerland for falsification of documents and money laundering, is believed to only have a basic visa that must be renewed every six months, and only after leaving the country. Le Matin reports that Chagaev was unable to produce a valid visa when police visited him at his office in Geneva."
It's funny how Grimm has semi-supported Chagaev while blasting CC. Quite telling of the state in Swiss football right now.
today the GC vs FCZ decision is expected as well as the Sion vs SFL (court of Valais) final decision Chagaev's Visa expired - he will have to go to court on Nov. 24th anyway
Sion loses! The "Sion 6" are suspended from now on. If the games they've played in will become forfait losses is not yet determined
Chagaev and CC excused but THIS has got to be the most stupid, ridiculuos, counter-productive and un-swiss thing a Swiss football boss has done this year. Can't believe it...
I could not really follow with Google Translator. Sorry, my German is terrible. Something do to with Facebook is all that I can gather.
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-sion-transferban Here is a good summary in English. But, if all of the FC Sion matches that they won are overturned, and awarded victories, what happens to the two losses that Sion had, do those clubs get extra points? As a Servette fan, one can hope!
November 19 17:45 Basel ? - ? Young Boys Bern 17:45 Thun ? - ? Servette November 20 16:00 Lucerne ? - ? Grasshoppers 16:00 Sion ? - ? Neuchatel Xamax 16:00 Zurich ? - ? Lausanne Sports The sad thing is that even starting now with 0 points, Sion could catch GCZ in three weeks.
Some forum user wrote "Stierli out!", some FC Luzern employee tracked this person down. It turned out to be an 18-year old kid playing for local team Root. Root then got an official letter from FCL condemning the kid AND, get this, CUT ALL TIES to this grassroots club; including events such as autograph signings etc. The 18 year old who used to attend games on a regular basis is now not welcome in the arena. Nothing would happen, this would be the new table
FCL "smart" enough to apologize within hours after the media got a hold of this story. They apologized to Root and CEO Schönenberger handed over some small symbolic gifts to Root's president.
well, Servette is maybe the only team who won't get any extra points, we might even lose one goal for having won 4-0 in Sion Lausanne would get 6 points for example and I think Thun and GC as well. So it's not really in Servette's favour expect the fact it's Sion who falls behind Sion won 10 points without the 6 new players and would be on last place