William Clem

Defensive Midfielder - FC Copenhagen
21 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for William Clem

6 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Not going: William Clem stays at FC Copenhagen

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Randers had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Boardroom

FC Copenhagen close the window on a squad of their own making

3 in and 5 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.

Squad

9 new faces, and FC Copenhagen 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.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Copenhagen

Abdul Daramy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Andreas Cornelius makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Market

The clock runs on Frederik Tingager's contract

12 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.

Squad

Majeed Waris retires from international football

“32 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 35 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at FC Copenhagen.

Looking ahead

Frederik Tingager faces his old club

OB next, and one man in the FC Copenhagen dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

The manager makes William Clem a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Copenhagen. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Magnus Mattsson hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Copenhagen can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Red Bull Salzburg tell FC Copenhagen: Karim Konaté is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

FC Copenhagen say no — this time

The offer from AGF for Thomas Delaney was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Randers are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. FC Copenhagen will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Player ratings

Majeed Waris takes the honours

Marked 7.60 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, FC Copenhagen had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Magnus Mattsson

“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.

Match

FC Copenhagen and Viborg take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Oliver Hojlund was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the FC Copenhagen dressing room was either.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a FC Copenhagen man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Andreas Cornelius was the best thing in any of them.

In brief

2 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Not going: William Clem stays at FC Copenhagen

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Reading had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Oscar Buur has said yes to Brommapojkarna

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. FC Copenhagen have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets

Bodo/Glimt tell FC Copenhagen: Håkon Evjen is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

FC Midtjylland come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Copenhagen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

FC Copenhagen bid $2.1M for Villum Berthelsen

The offer went to FC Nordsjaelland 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.

Market

Junnosuke Suzuki wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FC Copenhagen hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Boardroom

FC Copenhagen go back to the board over Villum Berthelsen

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.3M — a club that wants Villum Berthelsen enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Magnus Mattsson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Magnus Mattsson commits to FC Copenhagen for another 4 years.

Squad

FC Copenhagen are still strangers to each other

8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

1 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Bodo/Glimt tell FC Copenhagen: Patrick Berg is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Antwerp come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Copenhagen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Mohamed Elyounoussi wants more than FC Copenhagen are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Robert has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether FC Copenhagen can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Felix Beijmo signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Felix Beijmo and FC Copenhagen agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Copenhagen

Diant Ramaj 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.

Market

Rodrigo Huescas attracts admirers

The name of Rodrigo Huescas has come up in conversations FC Copenhagen were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The terraces

One of their own: Rodrigo Huescas

He is 22 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.

Squad

Thomas Delaney stands down from international duty

“81 caps is more than I ever expected, and it is time somebody else had them.” At 34 he is finished with his country and nowhere near finished with FC Copenhagen.

In brief