Marked for Luan
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
Viborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Aalborg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Kelvin John 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Luan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luan, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Aalborg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mathias Kubel: 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.” Aalborg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Benjamin Tiedemann Hansen 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Villarruel, and the manager let it.
Market25 Jan 2027
Ayuub Abdulle is 20, and Aalborg have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Luan asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Aalborg
7 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 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Lucas Villarruel 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
AGF take the points off Aalborg
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Hobro to sit and watch. I want to come back to Aalborg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Shots: 14, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexei Rojas Fedorushchenko, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Luan knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad14 Dec 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Aalborg have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aalborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Aalborg 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ivo Mammini’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Aalborg.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.83 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Wichmann, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Benjamin Tiedemann Hansen 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivo Mammini, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Hobro to sit and watch. I want to come back to Aalborg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.66 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Aalborg had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lucas Villarruel 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
AGF paid $510.0K and Aalborg took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Luan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luan, and the manager let it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
93% of the income goes out in wages at Aalborg
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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.51 on the card, and the Aalborg support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Aalborg out
Out, 0‑1 to SonderjyskE, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 27 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Aalborg's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aalborg has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Benjamin Tiedemann Hansen 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Mads Samson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑1 to FC Nordsjaelland, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kelvin John, and the manager let it.