Luis Chávez

Left Midfielder - Grasshopper
18 Apr 2027
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Marked for Luis Chávez

25 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market18 Jan 2027

Lee Young-Jun agrees terms with Gil Vicente

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Grasshopper people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Luke Plange says Grasshopper 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.

The terraces18 Jan 2027

Supporters turn on the $1.9M sale of Tim Meyer

He is going to Basel, the club has $1.9M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market18 Jan 2027

Tim Meyer moves on

Basel pay $1.9M, 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

So close: Yannick Bettkober’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Luzern moved on, Yannick Bettkober reports back to Grasshopper, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Grasshopper

Maximilian Ullmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A row about effort at Grasshopper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michaël Frey was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Venezia tell Grasshopper: Alfred Duncan is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Grasshopper try to borrow Levente Szabó

Legia have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

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23 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces4 Jan 2027

Supporters organise against the Grasshopper board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The knee: Luis Chávez out for 19 days

19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grasshopper lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match4 Jan 2027

Grasshopper are in real trouble now

Position 8, 17 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Grasshopper say no — this time

The offer from Randers for Lee Young-Jun 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Maximilian Ullmann 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 Grasshopper this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market4 Jan 2027

Basel watching Simone Stroscio

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

Squad4 Jan 2027

Julian von Moos 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.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Grasshopper rebuffed over Flavio Junior Bianchi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bari have kept their man, and Grasshopper go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Home is on Carlos Guerreño'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; Grasshopper are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

22 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Dec 2026

Luis Chávez damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Grasshopper

Maximilian Ullmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A row about effort at Grasshopper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michaël Frey was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market28 Dec 2026

Once Caldas join the queue for Lee Young-Jun

Add another name to the list: Once Caldas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Lee Young-Jun. The answer from Grasshopper has not changed — yet.

Loan watch28 Dec 2026

Nikolas Muci counts the days

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

Market28 Dec 2026

The Michaël Frey talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Grasshopper know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Lee Young-Jun gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lee Young-Jun is on it.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

The manager makes Tim Meyer a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Grasshopper. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Julien Bègue 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 Julien Bègue trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

21 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Dec 2026

Julian von Moos breaks a bone — 14 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Luis Chávez damages knee ligaments — 34 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 34 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.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Amir Abrashi says Grasshopper 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Grasshopper

Maximilian Ullmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Words at Grasshopper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michaël Frey 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 dugout21 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Nassim Ben Khalifa

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

In brief

20 Edition

The Grasshopper Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Dec 2026

Julian von Moos breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad14 Dec 2026

The knee: Luis Chávez out for 41 days

41 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grasshopper lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market14 Dec 2026

Lee Young-Jun says no to Deportes Tolima

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Lee Young-Jun had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Squad14 Dec 2026

A falling-out at Grasshopper

Quirin Moll and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad14 Dec 2026

A row about effort at Grasshopper

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nassim Ben Khalifa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Luke Plange 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.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Luke Plange has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Grasshopper will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout14 Dec 2026

Tim Meyer asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market14 Dec 2026

The Óscar Clemente story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Óscar Clemente signs something — a contract at Grasshopper or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief