The Helsingborg Sentinel
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Lukas Kjellnäs
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lukas Kjellnäs will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Helsingborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
Helsingborg find a way past Örgryte
Örgryte made Helsingborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
One of their own: Simon Bengtsson
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jakob Voelkerling Persson makes it 100
100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Helsingborg
Kevin Appiah Nyarko 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Timothé Rupil
A mark of 7.96, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Martin Ibrahimovic kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Max Svensson 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 Max Svensson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
William Westerlund gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say William Westerlund is on it.
In brief
- Looking ahead Johan Brattberg goes back to face Västerås SK
- Market The Adam Akimey story refuses to die
- Squad Max Svensson wants to know why he earns less