William Clem

Defensive Midfielder - FC Copenhagen
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

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5 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

FC Copenhagen say no — this time

The offer from RC Lens for Youssoufa Moukoko 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.

Squad

Felix Beijmo 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 FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Viktor Claesson

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

A bad afternoon for FC Copenhagen against OB

0‑1 to OB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

FC Copenhagen sign Noah Markmann, one for the future

Noah Markmann is 19, and FC Copenhagen 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at FC Copenhagen

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Birger Meling

“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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at FC Copenhagen

6 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.

In brief

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4 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Jordan Larsson takes the afternoon — 8.52

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jordan Larsson provided it, and the 8.52 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Abdulrahman Ghareeb runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

FC Copenhagen sell Dominik Kotarski for $3.2M

Dominik Kotarski has left for Shakhtar in a $3.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Copenhagen

Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.

Match

FC Copenhagen get the job done against SonderjyskE

A 3‑2 win over SonderjyskE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Helsingborg 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.

Squad

Words at FC Copenhagen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego García is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Mohamed Elyounoussi finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. FC Copenhagen have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Squad

Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

2 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

FC Copenhagen tear Aalborg apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Aalborg, and it could have been more.

Player ratings

Both of them Jordan Larsson's — 8.47

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Robert scores twice — 8.35

Two goals and a mark of 8.35 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

HJK 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

Rodrigo Huescas 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.

Squad

Junnosuke Suzuki signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Junnosuke Suzuki commits to FC Copenhagen for another 5 years.

Squad

Felix Beijmo 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 FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Robert

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.

In brief