Jorge Meré

Central Defender - Thun
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jorge Meré

111 Edition

The Thun Post

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Ólafur Guðmundsson says Thun went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Christian Donadio asks to leave Thun

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Nils Reichmuth 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Lestienne 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.

Match

Thun see off St. Gallen

Three points for Thun, 3‑1 the final word against St. Gallen in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Maxime Lestienne gets it from the manager

“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 ratings

Ninety minutes of Jorge Meré at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Thun.

Player ratings

Valmir Matoshi in the eights

A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mathías Tomás

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
110 Edition

The Thun Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mathías Tomás hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Thun can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Thun

Position 8 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Niklas Steffen keeps Thun in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Genís Montolio pops up at the right end — 7.76

7.76, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Maximiliano Velazco wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Thun know it.

Squad

Nils Reichmuth 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Market

The Mergim Qarri conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Lugano will make the call about Mergim Qarri this week. Thun have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Genís Montolio rescues a point for Thun

It needed Genís Montolio to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Grasshopper, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

108 Edition

The Thun Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Thun spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Thun say no — this time

The offer from St. Gallen for Mattias Käit 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.

Market

Jacques Fokam Sandeu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Thun, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Justin Roth keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Thun may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Leart Kabashi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83

A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Thun — 7.48

1 for Jorge Meré, marked 7.48, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Real improvement from Leart Kabashi at Thun

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Leart Kabashi is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Nils Reichmuth 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.

Squad

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.

In brief

107 Edition

The Thun Post

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for Thun

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Thun are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Dorian Paloschi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Lorenzo González has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Thun they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Nils Reichmuth 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.

Squad

Valmir Matoshi has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Match

Thun come up short against Sion

Sion left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mathías Tomás

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

No place for Mergim Qarri in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mergim Qarri has his answer from Thun; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

103 Edition

The Thun Post

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dorian Paloschi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Only the photograph left for Lorenzo González

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo González will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Thun the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Nils Reichmuth 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.

In brief

  • Squad Jorge Meré falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Squad Noah Rupp has improved at 24, which nobody expected
101 Edition

The Thun Post

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Thun sink to position 8

21 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Mathías Tomás hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Thun can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Corsin Konietzke wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Thun hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Home is on Maximiliano Velazco's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Thun are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Nils Reichmuth 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.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

7 new faces, and Thun are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

Thun buy the years ahead of Giuseppe Scarano

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Boardroom

Thun sign 7 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

In brief

100 Edition

The Thun Post

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Thun spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Marco Bürki puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Thun, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

In brief

98 Edition

The Thun Post

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jan Bamert: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Thun have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Neil Volken is a Thun player

The fee is $1.9M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Zurich drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

Home is on Tymofii Parinov's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Thun are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Market

The shop window has Genís Montolio in it

Thun have let the market know Genís Montolio can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

97 Edition

The Thun Post

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Thun

Position 8 and 21 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Mathías Tomás hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Thun can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Thun turn down Luzern for Furkan Dursun

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mathías Tomás

“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.

In brief

95 Edition

The Thun Post

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Behar Neziri: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Thun have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Lorenzo González has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Thun they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

In brief

94 Edition

The Thun Post

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

When it matters, Marco Bürki plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

92 Edition

The Thun Post

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Thun spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Mathías Tomás wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Maximiliano Velazco wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Thun know it.

In brief

91 Edition

The Thun Post

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Lorenzo González

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo González will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Thun the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Lestienne 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.

In brief

89 Edition

The Thun Post

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christopher Ibayi breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Thun are in real trouble now

Position 8, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

In brief

88 Edition

The Thun Post

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Christopher Ibayi out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

In brief

86 Edition

The Thun Post

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christopher Ibayi breaks a bone — 47 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

In brief

85 Edition

The Thun Post

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Christopher Ibayi out for 55 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Thun

Position 8 and 21 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Furkan Dursun stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Furkan Dursun and Thun agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

  • Squad Tempers go at Thun
  • Squad Jorge Meré falls out with a teammate over standards
84 Edition

The Thun Post

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Christopher Ibayi out for 64 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Maximiliano Velazco hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Thun can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Christopher Ibayi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christopher Ibayi and Thun agree another 2 years.

In brief

83 Edition

The Thun Post

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christopher Ibayi breaks a bone — 72 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Thun may not be able to give Mathías Tomás what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mathías Tomás wants continental football; whether Thun can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

In brief

82 Edition

The Thun Post

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christopher Ibayi breaks a bone — 79 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 79 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jan Bamert says Thun went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

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.

In brief

80 Edition

The Thun Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Christopher Ibayi out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Mihai Popescu puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Thun, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Young Boys come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Thun did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

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.

Squad

Andrea Palmieri gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrea Palmieri has just signed for Thun, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

In brief

79 Edition

The Thun Post

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christopher Ibayi breaks a bone — 102 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Nicolas Bürgy puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Thun, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

In brief

77 Edition

The Thun Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Thun are in real trouble now

Position 8, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

A fracture rules Djibril Benito out for 67 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

In brief

76 Edition

The Thun Post

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Djibril Benito out for 76 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Brighton Labeau says Thun went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Market

Thun shop where it costs nothing

Maximiliano Velazco signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

Market

Thun shop where it costs nothing

Finley McAllister signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief

74 Edition

The Thun Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Djibril Benito out for 91 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Thun may not be able to give Mathías Tomás what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mathías Tomás wants continental football; whether Thun can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

In brief

  • Squad Jorge Meré falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Squad Marco Bürki has become a man the manager trusts
73 Edition

The Thun Post

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Thun are in real trouble now

Position 8, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Djibril Benito breaks a bone — 99 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Behar Neziri: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Thun have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

71 Edition

The Thun Post

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mergim Qarri: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Thun have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Fabio Fehr 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

In brief

70 Edition

The Thun Post

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Lestienne 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.

Squad

A promise honoured for Maxime Lestienne

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Thun told Maxime Lestienne something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

68 Edition

The Thun Post

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Mihai Popescu out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Both of them Nils Reichmuth's — 9.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Match

Thun get the job done against St. Gallen

A 2‑1 win over St. Gallen, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dorian Paloschi

“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.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Christopher Ibayi

Marked 5.58, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Justin Roth

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 ratings

Mathías Tomás runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

67 Edition

The Thun Post

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Mihai Popescu out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Corsin Konietzke, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61

A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Maxime Lestienne, 35, rolls back the years — 7.80

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Match

Thun get the job done against Grasshopper

A 1‑0 win over Grasshopper, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

65 Edition

The Thun Post

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mihai Popescu breaks a bone — 47 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Thun

Position 8 and 14 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Marc Gutbub says Thun went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Mathías Tomás wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Player ratings

Nils Reichmuth runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Mathías Tomás

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.

Match

No goals between Thun and Lugano

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Lugano will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

63 Edition

The Thun Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Mihai Popescu out for 62 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Niklas Steffen

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Adam Maher: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Thun have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Jorge Meré 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.

Match

Valmir Matoshi the difference as Thun beat Zurich

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Valmir Matoshi. 2‑1 against Zurich, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

One of those days for Valmir Matoshi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

62 Edition

The Thun Post

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Mihai Popescu out for 69 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Maxime Lestienne signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maxime Lestienne and Thun agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Match

Thun come up short against Young Boys

Young Boys left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch

Furkan Dursun counts the days

“I watch every Thun game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Farense runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

61 Edition

The Thun Post

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Mihai Popescu out for 76 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Thun are in real trouble now

Position 8, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nils Reichmuth

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Adam Maher

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Maher, and the manager let it.

In brief

55 Edition

The Thun Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Thun's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Thun has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Niklas Steffen

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

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.

Market

Marc Gutbub attracts admirers

The name of Marc Gutbub has come up in conversations Thun were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

Álvaro Lemos gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

54 Edition

The Thun Post

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Thun

8 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.

Squad

Lorenzo González breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A move Dorian Paloschi would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dorian Paloschi is living that version at Thun, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Nils Reichmuth stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nils Reichmuth and Thun agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Maxime Lestienne 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.

Match

Thun come up short against Zurich

Zurich left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Adam Maher told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adam Maher has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Thun.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Jorge Meré

A mark of 4.29 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Michael Heule

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

53 Edition

The Thun Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Lorenzo González breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

7 matches without a win for Thun

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Thun are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 29 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Player ratings

Jorge Meré goes up and wins it — 7.91

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 7.91 for the rest of it.

Squad

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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Thun and Young Boys in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

A bad afternoon for Thun against Young Boys

2‑4 to Young Boys, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Brighton Labeau runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

In brief

52 Edition

The Thun Post

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Lorenzo González breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

6 matches without a win for Thun

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Thun are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Corsin Konietzke

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Mattias Käit 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.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Christopher Ibayi

“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.

In brief

50 Edition

The Thun Post

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Lorenzo González out for 45 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Álvaro Lemos asks to leave Thun

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Fabio Fehr 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.

Squad

Valmir Matoshi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valmir Matoshi commits to Thun for another 3 years.

Squad

Jorge Meré 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.

Market

The Furkan Dursun conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Santa Clara will make the call about Furkan Dursun this week. Thun have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

49 Edition

The Thun Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Lorenzo González out for 52 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Lorenzo González asks to leave Thun

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Luzern come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Thun did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Business is business: Adam Ilic goes

Vaduz paid $280.0K 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meré 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.

Squad

Mathías Tomás 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.

In brief

47 Edition

The Thun Post

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Lorenzo González breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Thun turn down St. Gallen for Lucien Dähler

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Furkan Dursun attracts admirers

The name of Furkan Dursun has come up in conversations Thun were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Real improvement from Corsin Konietzke at Thun

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Corsin Konietzke is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

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.

Market

Mathías Tomás wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Thun training over how hard people work
  • Market Álvaro Lemos is free to find somewhere else
40 Edition

The Thun Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maxime Lestienne 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.

Squad

Brighton Labeau 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.

Market

Thun and Jorge Meré are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

32 Edition

The Thun Post

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jorge Meré stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jorge Meré and Thun agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

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.

Squad

Maxime Lestienne 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.

In brief

31 Edition

The Thun Post

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Adam Maher hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Thun can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Maxime Lestienne 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Adam Maher

“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.

Market

Thun and Jorge Meré are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Mattias Käit knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mattias Käit trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

23 Edition

The Thun Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Fabio Fehr out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at Thun

Maxime Lestienne 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.

Squad

Words at Thun training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam Maher 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.

Market

Luzern watching Lucien Dähler

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Thun have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Marco Bürki gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Talks stall between Thun and Jorge Meré

“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.

In brief

  • Market Tim Spycher told to find a new club
  • Market Thun shop where it costs nothing
14 Edition

The Thun Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Fabio Fehr out for 100 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Thun will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Maxime Lestienne 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.

Squad

Michael Heule gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Still no ink between Thun and Jorge Meré

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Thun, another week without a signature from Jorge Meré.

Match

Thun share the spoils with Grasshopper

A 2‑2 draw with Grasshopper leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Thun

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief