The Thun Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Thun turn down Basel for Mattias Käit
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Michaël Frey is a medical away from Thun
The deal with Grasshopper is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Piet Scobel will not be coming to Thun
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Nürnberg is saying, and nobody at Thun is enjoying the guessing.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ashvin Balaruban attracts admirers
The name of Ashvin Balaruban has come up in conversations Thun were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Thun promote Michel Schär from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michel Schär has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Denis Okafor steps up from the Thun academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denis Okafor 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
- Match Sion take the points off Thun
- Squad Daniel Heber is a square peg at Thun
- The dugout Nico Fernandes answers for it