The Grasshopper Post
Squad2 May 2039
Argyris Darelas damages knee ligaments — 116 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 116 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.
Boardroom2 May 2039
Grasshopper put Mario Fernandes on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom2 May 2039
The Grasshopper board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad2 May 2039
13 seasons of Lee Young-Jun
249 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Grasshopper know what they have.
Squad2 May 2039
Tempers go at Grasshopper
Manex Lozano 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.
Squad2 May 2039
Joey Müller stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Joey Müller and Grasshopper agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Market Simon Aebischer is free to find somewhere else
- Market Ayrton Costa runs his contract down
- Boardroom Grasshopper answer back