The Zurich Herald
The terraces24 Jul 2028
Anger at Zurich spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match22 Jul 2028
The wait goes on for Zurich
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.
Match22 Jul 2028
The goals have deserted Zurich
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Zurich can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Zurich
Silas Huber 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
A late step up for Sekou Diawara
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
Graduation day at Zurich
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Juan-José Perea 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
One of our own: Albian Fassnacht joins the Zurich first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Albian Fassnacht is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Jul 2028
Cedric Freuler steps up from the Zurich academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cedric Freuler has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Cedric Embolo steps up from the Zurich academy
- Market One of our own: Remo Rodriguez joins the Zurich first team
- Match Nobody wins at Zurich