Denis Thomalla

Central Midfielder - Grasshopper
8 Oct 2026
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The Grasshopper Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Grasshopper

6 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near David Atanga

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Grasshopper

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Luke Plange signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luke Plange commits to Grasshopper for another 4 years.

Squad

Words at Grasshopper training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Allan Arigoni 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

Milton Castagna 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.

Squad

Denis Thomalla 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.

Match

Grasshopper draw a blank against Sion

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Sion defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

Window shut, Amir Abrashi still here

Grasshopper spent the window trying to move Amir Abrashi on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

In brief