The Zurich Herald
Match12 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Zurich
A 1‑4 beating by St. Gallen was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Philippe Keny for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Zurich will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dinis Almeida 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bledian Krasniqi 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 Zurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dinis Almeida
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Philippe Keny at his very best
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zurich.
Market14 Sep 2026
Zurich and Dinis Almeida are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Zurich
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Market14 Sep 2026
Zurich buy the years ahead of Remo Widmer
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Zurich sign Steven Shaqiri, one for the future
- Player ratings Juan-José Perea runs at them all day