Mio Zimmermann

Defensive Midfielder - Grasshopper
19 Jul 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Mio Zimmermann

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The Grasshopper Post

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Tomás Verón Lupi 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 Grasshopper can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Christian Witzig 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 Grasshopper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Basel are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Grasshopper will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Luzern join the queue for Lukas Wedl

Add another name to the list: Luzern have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lukas Wedl. The answer from Grasshopper has not changed — yet.

Market

Grasshopper sign Mio Zimmermann, one for the future

Mio Zimmermann is 20, and Grasshopper have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

Bledian Krasniqi has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Grasshopper that is a harder question to answer.

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The Luzern Courier

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Young Boys come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Luzern did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Lars Villiger 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 Luzern can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Luzern sell Mio Zimmermann for $2.0M

Mio Zimmermann has left for Grasshopper in a $2.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Tempers go at Luzern

Matteo di Giusto 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.

Market

Denis Okafor’s move to Lugano falls through

The deal that would have taken Denis Okafor to Lugano has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Luzern with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

Luzern count the cost of losing Yanick Brecher

69 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

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