The Grasshopper Post
Match8 Aug 2026
A hiding for Grasshopper
Beaten 0‑3 by St. Gallen, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nikolas Muci turns Blackburn Rovers down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vojtěch Vorel gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Vojtěch Vorel has just signed for Grasshopper, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sion come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Grasshopper did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Justin Hammel keeps Grasshopper in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Metinho
Grasshopper asked and Basel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Michaël Frey stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michaël Frey and Grasshopper agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Grasshopper
Justin Hammel 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Justin Hammel
“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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Ruben Ndoye joins the Grasshopper first team
- Market One of our own: Cedric Zakaria joins the Grasshopper first team
- Boardroom Nobody left the Grasshopper dressing room in a hurry