The Grasshopper Post
Match12 Sep 2026
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 ratings14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
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
- Market The Samuel Marques story refuses to die
- Loan watch Portimonense cannot leave Lee Young-Jun out