Marked for Daniel Heber
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Aug 2027
“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.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Thun
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Thun are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Kevin Möhwald gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kevin Möhwald has just signed for Thun, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Thun
Mattias Käit 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a goal for Thun
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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Thun
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabio Fehr was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Thun asked and Crvena Zvezda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A defender's afternoon for Nicolas Bürgy
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market2 Aug 2027
Marc Gutbub is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Thun has been clear about where Marc Gutbub stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Match5 Jul 2027
Every point is an argument now for Thun
Position 8 and 20 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
$1.4M settles it between the clubs for Jonathan de Donno
Vaduz have accepted the money. What Thun do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market5 Jul 2027
Thun get their man
The chase for Leon Schaffran ended with $490.0K changing hands and Vaduz out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
An offer of $83.0K for Diego Mina
Thun have gone to Lugano with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattias Käit 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” José Eduardo Castillo and Thun agree another 4 years.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Thun academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
Daniel Heber 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 Daniel Heber is on it.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Nils Reichmuth keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Thun say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Match7 Jun 2027
Every point is an argument now for Thun
Position 8 and 20 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Jun 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Grasshopper waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Thun is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $120.0K — a club that wants Ryan Kessler enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The offer went to Grasshopper this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
$100.0K on the table at Sion. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Thun
Furkan Dursun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Diego Del Valle arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Diego Del Valle has, at Thun, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattias Käit 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.
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Match10 May 2027
Thun sink to position 8
20 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad10 May 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Thun will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Thun
Silvan Widmer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 May 2027
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.
Squad10 May 2027
“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.
The dugout10 May 2027
Elías Ovelar 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Match12 Apr 2027
Thun sink to position 8
20 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Mats Seiler: 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattias Käit 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Thun
Jan Bamert and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Thun will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Thun will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Thun
Mattias Käit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Hugo Oviedo 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
“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 Daniel Heber.
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Steady
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Thun until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market1 Feb 2027
The phone has started ringing about Lucien Dähler again, and this time the name on the line is Basel. Thun are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Thun
Silvan Widmer 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Mattias Käit 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Thun asked and Luzern said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Idrissa Guèye has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Thun will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to Vaduz: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Daniel Heber 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 Daniel Heber is on it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Silvan Widmer has moved up it.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Justin Roth: 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Thun will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Zurich, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Thun
Mattias Käit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Thun asked and Luzern said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Thun
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabio Fehr was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Thun can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market2 Nov 2026
Nils Reichmuth is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Thun has been clear about where Nils Reichmuth stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match31 Oct 2026
Lugano take the points off Thun
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tom Strannegård
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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 Daniel Heber.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Match14 Sep 2026
Thun refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 10 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Furkan Dursun at 21 — 8.14
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Furkan Dursun did not need any: 8.14, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Francisco Vera
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Thun will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mattias Käit 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Fabio Fehr beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Daniel Heber.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 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.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 24 in, 1 out at Thun
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 24 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Vaduz wanted more than $120.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mattias Käit 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Thun asked and Napoli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Thun
Elías Ovelar 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.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The award goes to Brighton Labeau, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Thun will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No deal for Philip Otele at that price
Thun offered $5.5M; Basel said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with Borussia Dortmund is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Thun
Mattias Käit and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
Thun come up short against Lugano
Lugano left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dynamo Kyiv have kept their man, and Thun go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Thun training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Genís Montolio 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Thun and Daniel Heber 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.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Grasshopper is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Nürnberg is saying, and nobody at Thun is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Niklas Steffen commits to Thun for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Ashvin Balaruban has come up in conversations Thun were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michel Schär has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Denis Okafor has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.