Marked for Philippe Keny
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zurich may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Valon Berisha 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 62. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Zurich
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Valon Berisha 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Philippe Keny at his very best
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zurich.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexander Hack, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ivan Cavaleiro 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luciano Lollo, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Grasshopper made Zurich work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.30 — 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 64. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Zurich
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Zurich get their man
The chase for Théo Berdayes ended with $1.6M changing hands and Sion out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Match29 Aug 2026
The goals have deserted Zurich
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Zurich can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Zurich
Juan-José Perea 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Zurich training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Cavaleiro 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
7.62, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Zurich had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Young Boys come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zurich did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Philippe Keny and Zurich agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
St. Gallen pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Zurich
Juan-José Perea 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
Lindrit Kamberi 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.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
361 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Juan-José Perea commits to Zurich for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zurich this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Zurich training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lindrit Kamberi 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zurich have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Zurich against Thun
0‑2 to Thun, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
4.22. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.