Marked for Tim Spycher
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Lorenzo González obliged against Lugano. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Thun.
Match22 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Vaduz as Thun pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Thun scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tim Spycher hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Thun can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Fehr is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Thun
Brighton Labeau was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Ashvin Balaruban again, and this time the name on the line is Luzern. Thun are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mamadou Sakho, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market17 Aug 2026
Thun say no — this time
The offer from Sion for Genís Montolio was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Thun
Mattias Käit was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Thun cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mattias Käit
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Genís Montolio falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad17 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Thun are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Fabio Fehr
A mark of 7.14, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market17 Aug 2026
Thun bring in an old head
Sebastian Mai is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Match15 Aug 2026
Thun and Lugano cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lugano came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
250 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mattias Käit and Thun agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mattias Käit in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Thun this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Fehr is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Mattias Käit
Still no offer on the table, and Mattias Käit’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.17. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Thun, another week without a signature from Jo Coppens.
Market3 Aug 2026
Tim Spycher is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Thun has been clear about where Tim Spycher stands, which is more than many ever get.