The crowd waited for a goal that never came. AGF defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OB, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at OB is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at OB, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Seyed Mehdi Hosseini has let it be known that he does not like the way OB are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at OB is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OB can pretend not to have heard.
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 4 saves does not settle it either way.
In brief
The terracesEverybody has an opinion about Viljar Myhra
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
The shirt still fits. Erik Schmeichel is back at OB, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
The shirt still fits. Mathias Schmeichel is back at OB, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
A new face in his position, and Leandro Basán suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. OB have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
In brief
SquadRoy Castillo unhappy with how he is being used
A new face in his position, and Leandro Basán suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. OB have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OB, and both men came out saying it was fine.
A new face in his position, and Rasmus Falk suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. OB have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OB, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Jay-Roy Grot has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. OB know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. OB know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OB, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OB can pretend not to have heard.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OB can pretend not to have heard.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. OB have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. OB have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. OB know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
The terracesThe press cannot get enough of Fiete Arp
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OB can pretend not to have heard.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OB, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what OB can pretend not to have heard.
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Viljar Myhra knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at OB, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
The terracesEverybody has an opinion about Viljar Myhra
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.