Samuel Wikman

Right Midfielder - IFK Norrkoping
3 Jun 2038
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Marked for Samuel Wikman

604 Edition

The IFK Norrkoping Sentinel

22 Feb 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Market22 Feb 2038

Samuel Wikman puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at IFK Norrkoping, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market22 Feb 2038

Only the photograph left for Kalipha Jawla

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kalipha Jawla will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IFK Norrkoping the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad22 Feb 2038

Luan Cândido 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 IFK Norrkoping this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad22 Feb 2038

Words at IFK Norrkoping training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noel Sernelius 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.

Squad22 Feb 2038

Johan Karlsson 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.

Squad22 Feb 2038

Imam Jagne has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at IFK Norrkoping will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
601 Edition

The IFK Norrkoping Sentinel

1 Feb 2038
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Feb 2038

Kalipha Jawla puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at IFK Norrkoping, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 Feb 2038

Imam Jagne 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 IFK Norrkoping hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad1 Feb 2038

Yannick Geiger 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 IFK Norrkoping this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Feb 2038

Noel Sernelius 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.

Squad1 Feb 2038

Yannick Geiger has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at IFK Norrkoping will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad1 Feb 2038

Facundo Pastorino wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and IFK Norrkoping know it.

In brief

564 Edition

The IFK Norrkoping Sentinel

18 May 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 May 2037

Samuel Wikman breaks a bone — 111 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings18 May 2037

Imam Jagne, 33, rolls back the years — 8.65

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.65 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market18 May 2037

Kristoffer Guidetti has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around IFK Norrkoping they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad18 May 2037

Ludvig Arvidsson 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 IFK Norrkoping this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match16 May 2037

Hammarby take the points off IFK Norrkoping

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad18 May 2037

Words at IFK Norrkoping training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fabian Holst-Larsen 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.

Squad18 May 2037

The manager has not finished forgetting Franco Herrera's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings18 May 2037

Noel Sernelius runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market18 May 2037

The Noel Sernelius question follows IFK Norrkoping around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Noel Sernelius’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

563 Edition

The IFK Norrkoping Sentinel

11 May 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 May 2037

Samuel Wikman breaks a bone — 118 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match6 May 2037

IFK Norrkoping out of the cup

Kalmar FF ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad11 May 2037

Tempers go at IFK Norrkoping

Yannick Geiger 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.

Squad11 May 2037

Josh Atencio 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 ratings11 May 2037

Ludvig Arvidsson in the eights

A performance of 8.95 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings11 May 2037

Nobody could get near Isak Hammadou

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad11 May 2037

Rrok Toma 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.

Market11 May 2037

Still no ink between IFK Norrkoping and Jip Meilink

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at IFK Norrkoping, another week without a signature from Jip Meilink.

Match9 May 2037

IFK Norrkoping and IF Elfsborg 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.

In brief

538 Edition

The IFK Norrkoping Sentinel

17 Nov 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Nov 2036

Patrik Hiljemark damages knee ligaments — 69 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 69 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad17 Nov 2036

Kalipha Jawla breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad17 Nov 2036

Åke Andersson keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” IFK Norrkoping may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

In brief