As FC Basel once did: YB makes Bayern and weakens the competition

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YB trainer Raphael Wicky actually warned the competition in the big master interview with Blick on May 1. Asked if the Berners would take key players from their competitors, as they did a year earlier, the head coach said: “The club logically looks around the league. And logically YB is an issue for players who have convinced other clubs . »

First Ugrinic and Imeri, now Males

Last season, Filip Ugrinic (24) was brought in from FC Luzern and Kastriot Imeri (23) from Servette. Now, with Darian Males (22), who scored 28 points on loan from Inter Milan to FC Basel last season, the really big transfer coup has succeeded.

Males may also have gone abroad. Several Bundesliga clubs such as VfB Stuttgart were interested. Wicky said in May: “The players will ask themselves the question: am I ready for a foreign transfer or will I go to Switzerland’s best club first? And that’s YB.”

A year ago, Filip Ugrinic and Kastriot Imeri, the two protagonists, came from Lucerne and Servette. Now Males. The idea behind it is as clever as it is old: strengthen your own team and weaken the competition.

Bayern Munich has been doing this in Germany for years. And FC Basel has also been successfully practicing this model for many years. In the successful era under Christian Gross after the turn of the millennium, GC was Basel’s favorite victim: Players like Petric, Esposito, Murat Yakin, Smiljanic, Zuberbühler, Zanni and many more came to the Rheinknie directly or indirectly.

FCB once lured Yapi away from YB

But YB also suffered from the then series champion. Who doesn’t remember the 2009/10 season? YB is closer to the title than since 1986 under the later national coach Vladimir Petkovic. The Bernese dominate the competition with an offensive spectacle, led by two Ivorians. Seydou meets Doumbia up front, Gilles Yapi directs in midfield. YB is in first place for 32 of the 36 rounds – even 13 points ahead of Basel. But in the second half of the season, the capital gets nervous. FCB has put out feelers to Yapi. Later it is even said that Yapi has already signed. The ledge melts. At some point, Yapi’s change is a fact. And the Finalissima in Basel. Petkovic doesn’t even include Yapi in the squad anymore. FCB wins and snatches the title from YB’s nose.

Petkovic doubted that Yapi would stop giving his all. Years later, Yapi told Blick completely wrongly: “I really wanted to play. I’m a footballer, I want to win titles. A title with YB was my big dream. I was only runner-up three times in four seasons with YB. Yapi then became champion three times with FCB.

The then Ligacroesus FCB achieved what he wanted: YB restless, weakened and bound for years. The FCB title in 09/10 was followed by seven more in a row.

The roles in the Super League have now changed. Now YB makes Bavaria and plays with the muscles.

Source : Blick