The Thun Post
Squad12 Jul 2027
The knee: Seydou Fini out for 28 days
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Thun lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Thun
Mattias Käit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Real improvement from Seydou Fini at Thun
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Seydou Fini is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Neuchâtel Xamax tell Thun: Mateo Matic is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad12 Jul 2027
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.
Market12 Jul 2027
One of our own: Renato Vargas joins the Thun first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Renato Vargas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Jul 2027
Thun promote Xherdan Zakaria from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Xherdan Zakaria 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Thun promote Noah Aebischer from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Noah Aebischer 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Thun promote Fabian Gavranovic from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Fabian Gavranovic 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.
In brief
- The dugout Marc Gutbub knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Benjamin Leneis