The Grasshopper Post
Squad24 Jul 2028
Desley Ubbink damages knee ligaments — 108 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Tomás Verón Lupi asks to leave Grasshopper
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Dylan Durivaux: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Grasshopper have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Elias Pihlström at Grasshopper
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elias Pihlström is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match22 Jul 2028
The run at home goes on for Grasshopper
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Grasshopper
Tomás Verón Lupi 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.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
Graduation day at Grasshopper
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.
The terraces24 Jul 2028
The crowd has taken to Viktor Bjarki Daðason
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market24 Jul 2028
One of our own: Denis Freuler joins the Grasshopper first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denis Freuler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Haris Rodriguez joins the Grasshopper first team
- Market Ruben Rieder steps up from the Grasshopper academy
- Match Grasshopper find a way past Lugano