Marked for Andrej Đurić
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Triumph
Market12 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match10 Jul 2027
Malmo FF make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Jul 2027
Three points for Malmo FF, 1‑0 the final word against IFK Norrkoping in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Salifou Soumah commits to Malmo FF for another 4 years.
Match12 Jul 2027
Malmo FF at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 1, 35 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Marked 7.97. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Loan watch12 Jul 2027
“I watch every Malmo FF game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Esbjerg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Triumph
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Up for the corner, and Theodor Lundbergh delivers — 7.36
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Theodor Lundbergh scored, was marked 7.36, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market14 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Emmanuel Ekong again, and this time the name on the line is Esbjerg. Malmo FF are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match12 Jun 2027
Malmo FF make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match12 Jun 2027
Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match12 Jun 2027
Three points for Malmo FF, 3‑1 the final word against BK Hacken in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Viggo Jeppsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Ninety minutes of Mayckel Lahdo at his very best
Marked 8.45. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Malmo FF.
Looking ahead14 Jun 2027
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
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Triumph
Match15 May 2027
3‑0, and Jordan Larsson took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Malmo FF tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match15 May 2027
Nobody wants to play Malmo FF right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad17 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Malmo FF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad17 May 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Malmo FF had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Match15 May 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Malmo FF. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Player ratings17 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings17 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Apr 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Malmo FF lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Apr 2027
Degerfors made Malmo FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Marked 8.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Malmo FF, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Daniel Kulusevski on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Otto Rosengren 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 Otto Rosengren trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market19 Apr 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sead Hakšabanović signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Anders Christiansen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Höög and Malmo FF agree another 5 years.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I watch every Malmo FF game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Esbjerg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“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.
Market22 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sead Hakšabanović signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Gustav Grubbe 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Esbjerg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Apollon have kept their man, and Malmo FF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
AIK wanted more than $1.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“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 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elliott Andersson and Malmo FF agree another 3 years.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Malmo FF, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Market22 Feb 2027
Malmo FF have made Otto Rosengren available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market22 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sead Hakšabanović signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Esbjerg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Esbjerg
Abdoulaye Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Horsens have kept their man, and Esbjerg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Esbjerg will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Squad8 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Esbjerg has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Esbjerg. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Benjamin Hvidt 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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Upbeat
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Match1 Feb 2027
Esbjerg up to position 3
44 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 4 in, 1 out at Esbjerg
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Esbjerg
Abdoulaye Camara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustav Grubbe, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan enquiry to BK Hacken: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Esbjerg
5 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Esbjerg, another week without a signature from Magnus Lankhof Dahlby.
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Market25 Jan 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Lucas From had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad25 Jan 2027
At 20, Abdoulaye Camara is already the best thing here
An average of 7.05 in a first team he is several years too young for. Esbjerg have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Abdoulaye Camara 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Esbjerg asked and Bodo/Glimt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Gustav Grubbe 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Andrej Đurić has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Esbjerg know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
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Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Bodo/Glimt keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” John Kolawole and Esbjerg agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Esbjerg asked and Randers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan move for Malthe Højholt is in the works
Esbjerg have made the call to Gornik Zabrze. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Bodo/Glimt: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad18 Jan 2027
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Esbjerg will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Market18 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Esbjerg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Market18 Jan 2027
Malmo FF say no — this time
The offer from Cherno More for Yanis Karabelyov 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pontus Jansson 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nikola Vasić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mayckel Lahdo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Malmo FF that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Robin Olsen knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Malmo FF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Malmo FF would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Johan Hammar has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Johan Hammar has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Esbjerg
Abdoulaye Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Anders Sønderskov is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Esbjerg asked and Brondby said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Patrick Tjørnelund 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Isak Määttä is in the works
Esbjerg have made the call to Bodo/Glimt. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Kjell Peersman is in the works
Esbjerg have made the call to KAA Gent. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Malmo FF: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Oskar Boesen 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.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market11 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Esbjerg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Andrej Đurić. The answer from Malmo FF has not changed — yet.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Malmo FF
7 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Malmo FF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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 Elliott Andersson is on it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The dressing room has not forgiven Arbnor Mucolli
He arrived from the one club this squad will not say out loud, and several months on there are still players who pass the ball to somebody else first. Nobody will admit to it and everybody has noticed.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A wage question at Malmo FF
Daníel Guðjohnsen has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and William Nieroth Lundgren trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Malmo FF have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Silkeborg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Warren Kamanzi. The answer from Malmo FF has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Robert Taylor 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 Robert Taylor is on it.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Gabriel Busanello keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Malmo FF say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Johan Karlsson 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes Andrej Đurić a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Malmo FF. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrej Đurić and Malmo FF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Malmo FF told Gabriel Busanello something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nikola Vasić knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Malmo FF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Malmo FF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
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 Elliott Andersson is on it.
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The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Pontus Jansson 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Match7 Nov 2026
IFK Norrkoping will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Malmo FF were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.65, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.38 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Malmo FF and IFK Norrkoping in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Mayckel Lahdo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.49. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrej Đurić, and the manager let it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 6‑0, Daniel Kulusevski could afford to be generous.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Robert Taylor has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
Derby day misery for Malmo FF
Losing 0‑1 is one thing; losing to IFK Goteborg in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Malmo FF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Alexandru Ghiţă has agreed terms with Orebro for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Daniel Kulusevski to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Johan Hammar, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Robert Taylor 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 Robert Taylor is on it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Chances created: 9. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Malmo FF can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Tarik Karic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tarik Karic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Malmo FF the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Malmo FF will be judged on one thing only.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Malmo FF 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrej Đurić
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mayckel Lahdo 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Malmo FF than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clock runs on Johan Hammar's contract
11 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Malmo FF bow out of the cup
Umeå FC go through and Malmo FF go home, 3‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match12 Aug 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Nikola Vasić will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Malmo FF escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Johan Dahlin is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Johan Dahlin: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Adrian Skogmar had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
Inter Turku come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Malmo FF until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market17 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Johan Hammar is back at Malmo FF, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Tarik Karic has come up in conversations Malmo FF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.