The Thun Post
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ruben Fassnacht damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Thun bid $2.5M for Noah Ganaus
The offer went to OB this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Mattias Käit goes up and wins it — 7.54
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.54 for the rest of it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Luzern tell Thun: Severin Ottiger is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Niklas Steffen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Niklas Steffen commits to Thun for another 4 years.
Squad10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fabio Fehr 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Thun against Sion
1‑2 to Sion, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Niklas Steffen
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Niklas Steffen, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Haris Aebischer joins the Thun first team
- Market Thun promote Renato Widmer from within
- Market Loris Schär steps up from the Thun academy