Super League: 10 clubs – 10 theses

Basel becomes champion – but without Wicky

FCB is number 1 in Switzerland! Anyone who manages to attract a Serie A star to Switzerland at his golden age with Silvan Widmer (25 years old) is always the measure of all things. The routiners Fabian Frei (29) and Valentin Stocker (29) will resume the leading role for which the duo was brought from the Bundesliga, Kalulu and Omlin FCB with promising potential. In the lead, Albian Ajeti, the top scorer, and Ricky van Wolfswinkel, a man with Torgarantie, Bua, Oberlin and Kalulu, are in the lead. Even in the central midfield, the Rosaceae League is well placed. In short: With this team, the FCB will celebrate the 21st title of the club's history this summer. Only: Raphael Wicky should not do the experiment, internally, the coach is questioned. If the season starts in the pants, the responsible people will pull the ripcord, so as not to compromise the championship.

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Basel becomes champion – but without Raphael Wicky. BENJAMIN SOLAND

The GC becomes the shooting gallery of the League

The veteran Milan Vilotic is in St. Gallen. Australian international Trent Sainsbury and Swedish Emil Bergström can no longer afford the club. The GC relies on boys in central defense. Cédric Zesiger is 20 years old, Jean-Pierre Rhyner 22. The back Numa Lavanchy is absent at the beginning of the season, injured, and now he has also caught up with his replacement Allan Arigoni, he falls from three to four months. All indications are that GC is replacing FC St.Gallen as the nation's shooting range. GC wants to strengthen itself in central defense. Sports director Mathias Walther: "It's our turn, a little more competition in the defense would be desirable …" The competition is good, a defensive leader would be better.

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GC Sports Director Mathias Walther must watch his team become the league's shooting club. SVEN THOMANN

Magnin sorts his captain

FCZ coach Ludovic Magnin's credo is: "If a younger and older player is as good as you are, the youngest plays!" That's why Captain Victor Palsson (27) probably tough. With Hekuran Kryeziu (25), Zurich brought a new regular player for the central midfielder. In addition, Izer Aliu (18) and Toni Domgjoni (19) are getting better and better. This Magnin does not fear the captain's armband, he showed when he took office: Andris Vanins, veteran of the goalkeeper, lost his position and was appointed as regular

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Hekuran Kryeziu (right) is the new boss of the FCZ midfielder. KEY

Coach Weiler launches in December edgy

The Lucerne team is poor. Coach René Weiler wants new players. "We will need two or three reinforcements in front and on the side," he says. But nothing works. He "can not turn a VW into a Ferrari," says Weiler. There are no new transfers, also because Lucerne has to comply with a savings plan, it is difficult for Lucerne. And if leading investor Bernhard Alpstaeg ironically criticizes the media, Weiler will soon have enough.

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FCL coach Rene Weiler has enough in the winter. SVEN THOMANN

Xamax does not descend – thanks to artificial turf

With incredible passion, the Neuchâtelois enter the new season. The atmosphere at Xamax is fantastic, the anticipation for the first season in Super League, the fans behind the team. And the West Swiss have an advantage over 7 of the 9 opponents of Super League: They play on artificial turf in front of their audience. Only YB and Thun also work on plastic. Xamax will hold the league this way. Also in honor of the late President Gilbert Facchinetti

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Xamax Promoter starts the new season with a lot of enthusiasm. KEY

Sutter is no longer sports director after the season

Alain Sutter (50 years old) has charisma, he is confident. But that does not say anything about his fitness as a sports director. He wove the team in the summer – and brought mostly foreign players. If aspen crushes sportingly, it is only a defect: it. That President Matthias Hüppi can also draw one that he praised in exuberance, proved not only the Contini Cause. That good spirit Sutter himself has enough? Certainly not excluded.

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Alain Sutter will not be the sporting director of the FCSG at the end of the season. KEY

YB does not arrive at the Champions League

The champion dreams honeys of the queen category, only the participation in the group stage brings 18 million francs. YB must survive "only" on the elimination round. But the money comes from the others: Because up to the two blitz games of August, the Bernese will always lose important players from the champion team in the transfer market. After the bleeding, possible obstacles such as Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic Glasgow or PSV Eindhoven are too high. As a consolation, there is the group stage of the Europa League

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Gerardo Seoane will miss the Champions League with YB. KEY

Sion becomes Cup winner

The myth was destroyed after the last defeat against FC Basel two years ago, but the Wallis remain the measure of all things in the Cup. The prospect of a direct qualification for the group stage of the Europa League will prompt the inhabitants of Sion to win the Sandoz Trophy for the 14th time at the end of the season.
Thun still has to pump fans at Christmas . The Bernese Oberlanders do not have a boss like the opponents of Super League and so they go from season to season. Almost every year, there are calls for help from the board of directors: it sometimes misses 1.5 million or even a few hundred thousand. Since 2014, the association "Härzblüet für üse FC Thun" organizes regular fundraising campaigns. This season will not be possible without the support of local fans and companies.

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Maurizio Jacobacci leads Sion to victory in the section. freshfocus

Lugano dismounts

The Ticinese have a bad team. There is a lack of scale, experience. And there is no leader in the team. Playmaker Davide Mariani has not been replaced. In addition, Lugano's infrastructure leaves something to be desired: the dilapidated stadium slows the club's euphoria. President Angelo Renzetti too quickly loses his temper and intervenes too often in the training issues. This will turn against this season.

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Lugano's president, Angelo Renzetti, must accept relegation at the end of the season. KEY

Published 20.07.2018 | Updated at 23:54