The Thun Post
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Furkan Dursun, 21, steals the show — 7.70
Marked 7.70 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Thun walk away from Lars Lokotsch
$2.3M was the most the club would pay and Preußen Münster were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Obed Nkambadio turns down Thun
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Paris FC keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Ismaël Konaté
Thun asked and Juventus said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Haris Rieder joins the Thun first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Haris Rieder 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 Thun promote Christian Kobel from within
- Market One of our own: Noah Shaqiri joins the Thun first team
- Market Silvan Widmer steps up from the Thun academy