Magnin back in Super League: “I’m really looking forward to VAR!”

The new twelve grader should fit you. What do you think of the new mode?
I think it’s very good that the competition has expanded. Personally I would have been even for 14 teams. Of course you can always discuss the mode.

From your time at Altach you know the split in the middle of the season in a so-called final and relegation round. How do you feel about this?
In Austria it is a bit different: after everyone has played against everyone twice, the competition is divided into two groups and the points are halved. For neutral viewers and media, it is pure tension until the end. Of course it is not fair at all, in the end a club that has scored more points over the whole season can be relegated. This is not the case with our new mode.

They now also get the video referee after a season without VAR in the Challenge League.
I’m really looking forward to the VAR! Although there will always be wrong decisions and discussions despite VAR, he makes football fairer. Trust me, I’ve wished for the VAR a few times while watching the games on TV at home.

Ex-Nati player Alexandre Comisetti recently said in Blick that Lausanne urgently needs reinforcements. He said that in your promotion team only eight to ten players are qualified for the Super League. Agreed?
Of course you can argue about whether there are 10, 12 or 14 players, but broadly speaking I can agree with what Alex said. We put together a very good team for the Challenge League last year. It still needed selective reinforcements. I think we managed that well with the transfers that have been made.

Comisetti dreams of the great Lausanne of his youth.
Me too, believe me! But to get there, we have to be patient. take it step by step. There’s no point in saying you want to attack YB at the top in a year or two and then get relegated. That happened recently and the club has learned from it. You don’t hear those kinds of announcements anymore.

You can dream big with this owner. Wouldn’t Ineos fulfill every player wish you had?
That would be nice (laughs)! But do you really feel that this company would have become so big and successful if the money had been thrown out the window? At Ineos you can and do calculate. These are not Saudis.

Despite this, Lucerne seems to have more money available for transfers than Lausanne. After all, you definitely wanted the whirling Ouchy wing Teddy Okou in winter. Lucerne has now caught the super dribbler.
I can’t say if Lucerne offered more than we did. Maybe. But maybe the player also chose Lucerne because great work has been done there for years. The club also plays in Europe this season. We in Lausanne are not yet as stable as Lucerne. We need to prove we’re not an elevator team anymore. In recent years they have been relegated from the Super League three times.

That has cost the club a lot of fans. It seems like they are slowly coming back to the stadium.
Yes, we’ve invested a lot in that lately. Our training sessions are always open and our players regularly visit schools and juniors in football clubs. Now it depends on our performance on the field whether we can generate even a little bit of euphoria in Lausanne as we did when I was a boy. I recently saw two or three kids wearing Lausanne shirts around town. That has not been the case in recent years. Our goal is for ten children to come, then twenty, thirty and so on.