Luka Mikulić

Central Defender - Grasshopper
27 Dec 2026
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Marked for Luka Mikulić

21 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Luka Mikulić says Grasshopper went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The wait goes on for Grasshopper

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Sebastian Dragovic 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.

Squad

Luka Mikulić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luka Mikulić commits to Grasshopper for another 4 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Darko Jevtić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Darko Jevtić, and the manager let it.

Match

Honours even between Grasshopper and Thun

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Granit Okafor on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Granit Okafor after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Grasshopper pick somebody else ahead of Santiago Puzzo

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

Julian von Moos was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Julian von Moos out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grasshopper lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Grasshopper through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Sion, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Luka Mikulić, 21, steals the show — 8.03

Marked 8.03 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

A row about effort at Grasshopper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sebastian Dragovic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Matteo Mantini has seen enough of Neuchâtel Xamax

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Grasshopper, and 4 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Nikolas Muci

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.

Match

Óscar Clemente sends Grasshopper past Winterthur

It finished 1‑0, and it was Óscar Clemente’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Grasshopper.

Player ratings

One of those days for Óscar Clemente

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Luke Plange ran the middle of the pitch — 6.87

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.87, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

In brief

10 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Julian von Moos damages knee ligaments — 48 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Nikolas Muci 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.

Squad

Yannick Bettkober is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Late, late show earns Grasshopper a point

Minute 87, against Zurich, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout

No hiding place for Santiago Puzzo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Santiago Puzzo, and the manager let it.

Squad

Home is on Luka Mikulić's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Grasshopper are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Julian von Moos

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Honours even between Grasshopper and Zurich

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Granit Okafor on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

In brief