Luka Mikulić

Central Defender - Lugano
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The Grasshopper Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match3 Oct 2026

11 matches without a win for Grasshopper

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Grasshopper are no longer polite ones.

Match5 Oct 2026

Every point is an argument now for Grasshopper

Position 9 and 10 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match3 Oct 2026

A European lesson for Grasshopper

1‑2 against Astra. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Sven Köhler 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Óscar Clemente runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad5 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Óscar Clemente

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

Match3 Oct 2026

Young Boys take the points off Grasshopper

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Allan Arigoni 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

No time for Astra to settle

The goal that put Astra ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Grasshopper equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief

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The Lugano Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Aug 2026

Uran Bislimi 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 Lugano can pretend not to have heard.

Match29 Aug 2026

The wait goes on for Lugano

6 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

David Von Ballmoos 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 Lugano this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match29 Aug 2026

4 matches without a goal for Lugano

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Mattia Zanotti 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Yanis Cimignani

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Uran Bislimi

“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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Lugano

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Market31 Aug 2026

Experience through the door at Lugano

Benjamin Kololli arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

In brief