It does not work concatenation in function.php

the_post_thumbnail() echoes data immediate, what you want to try is get_the_post_thumbnail() which returns data so that you may concatenate properly.

WordPress core functions that are prefixed with the_ usually echo, those prefixed with get_ usually return.

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