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(nda) 1986/87, when YB started as a champion in a new season, finished at the end after 30 games of less than 16 teams in 10th place. How have the times changed? YB has long escaped mediocrity. Since 2008, with one exception (2013/7), the Bern has always been among the top three in the Super League, seven times even among the top two.
In the spring of 2019, YB was in the same bad position as after the last game. The main season has (and therefore goes down), can be virtually excluded. Because the ambitions after the first title of champion in 32 years are completely different. "We can not say after last season we want to finish second or third," said Gerardo Seoane, the successor of the winner of the German Cup Eintracht Frankfurt continued coach-trainer Adi Hütter. "We are ambitious to the max."
The Young Boys start with the advantage (previously valid) of the title defense task of not having undergone drastic personnel changes. Permanent employees all have contracts in place, but the market, which remains hot with the continuation of the transfer period until the end of August, could still make some changes. Until now, YB has categorically rejected all offers – but that does not mean that this remains the case with financially immoral offers. "We will certainly not make key players before the European Cup qualifiers," said sports director Christoph Spycher.
With the problem of major departures, FC Basel has again been confronted with this situation. Tomas Vaclik, Michael Lang and Mohamed Elyounoussi, who have made their way into the top five European leagues, have claimed around 30 million Swiss francs. The money available alone solves the difficulty of the club but not by itself. The FCB can not buy the results in the field.
Basel executives know that they must satisfy their fans after the first year without a title since 2009. This applies primarily to coach Raphael Wicky. Walliser, 41, pointed out that he does not think the pressure is stronger than last year. "I feel a lot of support."
The question will be how quickly Wicky can put the FCB on the right track towards goals. Because the announcement at the competition is clear. "The title has to come back to Basel," said sports director Marco Streller. And President Bernhard Burgener said that he wanted the championship title and not "it would be nice if we could get it". As a minimum international goal Burgener presented the Europa League, "we want in the final of the Cup". So what happens if the start of the championship fails and Basel stumbles in qualifying for the Champions League (PAOK Thessaloniki)?
Behind the top of the invulnerable duo wants the second season after the reappearance of the winners of the FC Zurich Position Cup. "I want us to catch up as quickly as possible, the two big players have worked very well in recent years, but we have to push them even further without losing sight of the reality," said FCZ manager Ludovic Magnin.
Grasshoppers are also fighting for a failure last season for higher. GC coach Thorsten Fink said, "We do not want to break the trap, but a top-5 ranking is possible from rank 9. The team has this quality and our goal to Medium term is to be ahead of the FCZ.
In addition to Young Boys have received with the participants in the Lucerne Europe Cup (René Weiler for Seoane) and St. Gallen (Peter Zeidler) two other clubs a new coach. For them, the repetition of the 3rd or 5th place would be a success. Especially in St. Gallen with 19 and in the ways with 20 mutations, the team of players has changed massively, a forecast is relatively difficult.
Like the championship race, the fight against relegation is also very clear. Thun, which has never been worse than the seventh since re-emergence eight years ago, has been strengthened according to its financial resources. The same can be said of Lugano. These two teams will have to occupy more of the preservation of the league than with the places of the Cup of Europe.
After the descent of Lausanne-Sport, in addition to FC Sion, Neuchâtel Xamax again represents Western Switzerland in the Super League. After the forced relegation in January 2012, the third Swiss champions in the second division started a new interregional regatta, now he is back in the highest league. Under the leadership of Michel Decastel, the league's oldest coach, Xamax has never lost two straight since October 2015. That's why the coach said: "Everybody has to be aware that the starting point is changing for us and that there will be defeats, we are a geek – but a good one! "
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