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Coach Jussi Tapola (49) has clear ideas about what his SCB team should look like. Compromises are not his thing. If you don’t meet your profile, you don’t play or only play a little. This means that sports director Andrew Ebbett (40) is constantly working on the composition of the selection throughout the season.
Anyone who keeps an eye on the Blick Transfer Center will see that the Canadian has already registered four players and brought in as many. Mika Henauer (on loan to Kloten until January 31), Martin Frk (Tsch, to the Lakers), Julius Honka (Fi, on loan to Servette until December 31) and Jesse Zgraggen (to Ajoie) left. Meanwhile, Joona Luoto (Fi, most recently Cleveland/Columbus), Marco Maurer (on loan until December 31 from Servette), Ville Pokka (on loan until January 31 from Biel) and this week Simon Kindschi (on loan until January 15 from Kloten) have been signed) .
What is striking: the new ones are all large and robust. “Jussi’s previous teams also consisted of big players who can run well,” says Ebbett. “We wanted to make improvements in this area as the games are now becoming more difficult.”
Help from the partner team and the juniors
With eight substitutions, Ebbett is the clear number 1 in the competition. And SCB are likely to announce their next temporary signing shortly after defender Pokka was injured during the warm-up in Geneva on Tuesday. A defender from partner team Basel should complete the squad and junior Nils Rhyn (18) could make his NL debut as the seventh defender, just like Patrik Nemeth, Samuel Kreis (both injured, back after the Christmas holidays), Louis Füllmann and Nick Meile ( both national U20 teams) are missing.
“We hope it’s nothing serious at Pokka,” Ebbett said. The extent of Pokka’s injury will impact medium-term planning. SCB has an option to sign the Finn until the end of the season. Because the no-nonsense Pokka fits the Tapola concept much better than the glasses maker Honka, he should be retained if he is fit.
Even before this season, players under Ebbett repeatedly left before their contracts expired. «I have spoken to many experienced sports directors from different countries. And they gave me the advice: ‘If something doesn’t work, don’t wait to find a solution.'”
Sceviour and Knight with potential for improvement
But the Canadian admits he needs to do “better” with the selection. He had already signed Frk and Honka before Tapola was signed. Colton Sceviour (still winless after 19 goals last season) and Corban Knight still have room for improvement after preseason injuries. However, Ebbett had a good hand with goalkeeper Adam Reideborn and defensive monster Nemeth. Dominik Kahun’s class is undisputed, Luoto exceeded expectations with his goals at the start.
Ebbett expects the number of transfers to continue to increase throughout the season in the competitive results league with six foreigners and fourteen teams. The team leaders regularly exchange information and know exactly which players are unhappy elsewhere. Unlike the NHL, there is always a need for the player agreement in addition to the club agreement, which is why many exchanges have failed in the past.
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Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
