{"id":74272,"date":"2026-05-29T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74272\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:51:11","slug":"a-circus-footballer-a-fair-weather-player-a-top-bvb-prospect-is-facing-ridicule-and-an-uncertain-future-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/74272\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A circus footballer, a fair-weather player&#8221;: A top BVB prospect is facing ridicule and an uncertain future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This should raise eyebrows, because the player in question is an outstanding talent once tipped by current Bayern boss Vincent Kompany as a future Ballon d&#8217;Or winner. Although Duranville has been hampered by a string of injuries throughout his young career, he must now raise his game across the board\u2014especially by showing greater professionalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was playing in a very playful manner and was also taking risks with a lot of backheels, through balls, one-twos and three-way moves,&#8221; says Schauffert. &#8220;As a result, he occasionally lost possession in a way that could have been avoided. On the other hand, FC Basel&#8217;s play in the second half of the season was characterised by numerous individual errors and poor decisions. Duranville was no exception.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Basel, who began the campaign as double champions, slipped to fifth in the final standings, posting a negative goal difference and finishing 19 points adrift of Thun. Lichtsteiner&#8217;s points average of 1.05 over 19 games is starkly underwhelming, and the club ultimately missed every target, leaving it primed for a top-to-bottom overhaul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This should raise eyebrows, because the player in question is an outstanding talent once tipped by current Bayern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,614,11526,9315,39092],"class_list":["post-74272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basel","tag-basel","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-bundesliga","tag-features","tag-j-duranville"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116658666625090446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}