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Steady
Match7 Sep 2026
Thun are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 10 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Thun close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Thun had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Levadiakos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Young Boys wanted more than $560.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 unbeaten for Thun
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Thun did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Thun
Ilyas Chouaref 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 Sep 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Thun go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Thun asked and Vaduz said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
$1.0M was the most the club would pay and Vaduz were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Thun
Brighton Labeau 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Thun do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.96. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Thun
12 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mario Lezcano Morán and Thun agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Levadiakos 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Shea Lacey obliged against Lugano. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Thun.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$12.9M on the table at Toronto FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shea Lacey, 19, steals the show — 7.72
Marked 7.72 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$1.2M was the most the club would pay and St. Gallen were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Thun make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Thun have 3 straight wins of it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Thun asked and St. Gallen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ashvin Balaruban has left for Luzern in a $810.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Luzern waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Thun is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
Thun pay Sion $3.4M for a proper upgrade
Sion did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $3.4M for Ilyas Chouaref, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to St. Gallen 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 targets17 Aug 2026
No thanks: Jorge De Asis rejects the move
Thun had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Gimnasia La Plata, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Sion 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
Thun asked and Basel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ricardo Seferovic 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Djibril Xhaka 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Renato Fassnacht is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michel Freuler 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Gimnasia La Plata 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.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mattias Käit and Thun agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estudiantes have kept their man, and Thun go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Mattias Käit
Still no offer on the table, and Mattias Käit’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Manchester United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Niklas Steffen knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Thun, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Michel Fassnacht chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.