The Thun Post
Match1 Aug 2026
Thun run riot against Zurich
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Michael Heule goes up and wins it — 7.41
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.41 for the rest of it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mattias Käit signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mattias Käit and Thun agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabio Fehr is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Noah Rupp
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Valmir Matoshi
Marked 8.31 — 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Christopher Ibayi in the eights
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Mattias Käit
Still no offer on the table, and Mattias Käit’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Lucien Dähler
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Nils Reichmuth
- Market Still no ink between Thun and Justin Roth