Marked for Emmanuel Samba
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Thun this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Fabio Fehr
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market16 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Thun will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Marked 8.29 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad16 Aug 2027
36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market19 Jul 2027
Thun say no — this time
The offer from St. Gallen for Marco Bürki was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market19 Jul 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Thun have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad19 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Thun this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Jul 2027
Business is business: Marc Gutbub goes
Luzern paid $800.0K and Thun took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market19 Jul 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 68 days on the sidelines for Emmanuel Samba, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
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Boardroom
Thun are making the ground bigger
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Squad
No hiding place for Jan Bamert
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Squad
A wage question at Thun
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Mattias Käit in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Thun this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Niklas Steffen
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match19 Sep 2026
Thun come up short against Basel
Basel left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Fabio Fehr left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Fabio Fehr will call it something else in private.
Squad21 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Niklas Steffen knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 5.69, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.