Marked for Atli Þór Jónasson
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Tarik Ibrahimagic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Atli Þór Jónasson, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Gunnar Vatnhamar is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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 Ingvar Jónsson is on it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Oliver Ekroth 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 Oliver Ekroth trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Elías Már Ómarsson signs something — a contract at Vikingur or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson 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.
The dugout30 Nov 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 Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen is on it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Sigurjón Mogensen 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Vikingur. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market30 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vikingur know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Oliver Ekroth: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vikingur have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Tarik Ibrahimagic'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.
The dugout26 Oct 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 Sveinn Gísli Þorkelsson is on it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Vikingur. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Haraldur Ágúst Brynjarsson is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Atli Þór Jónasson and Vikingur agree another 3 years.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vikingur
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sigurjón Mogensen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hobro is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets28 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FC Midtjylland keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Andreas Søndergaard has agreed terms with Vejle for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Hobro
Jacob Storevik 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Hobro
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emil Søgaard was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Atli Þór Jónasson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hobro.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 19 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hobro.
In brief
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Market
Marco Bruhn is free to find somewhere else
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The dugout
No hiding place for Morten Knudsen
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Squad
16 new faces, and Hobro are still learning each other
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 9 in, 0 out at Hobro
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $47.1K — a club that wants Sebastian Lodberg enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Malmo FF is saying, and nobody at Hobro is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Hobro
Atli Þór Jónasson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Hobro have gone to FC Midtjylland with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Hobro
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emil Søgaard was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Hobro will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 14 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match22 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Hobro
1‑0 against Esbjerg, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
HB Køge come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hobro did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with IF Elfsborg is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Hobro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Frederik Dietz 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hobro asked and Viking said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Jonathan Lind again, and this time the name on the line is Aarhus Fremad. Hobro are listening politely and promising nothing.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jonas Dakir, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Runar Hauge beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Vikingur march on in the cup
Breidablik are out and Vikingur go through, 4‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 Vikingur, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Haraldur Ágúst Brynjarsson to Keflavik has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Vikingur with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad24 Aug 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BK Hacken have kept their man, and Vikingur go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vikingur.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Vikingur
A 5‑0 win over Fjolnir, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Atli Þór Jónasson takes the afternoon — 8.52
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Atli Þór Jónasson provided it, and the 8.52 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
At 36 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 10 in, 5 out at Vikingur
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market17 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Óskar Borgþórsson to Fylkir has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Vikingur with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Gylfi Sigurðsson 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.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: BK Hacken keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Elías Már Ómarsson and Vikingur agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Birkir Eyjolfsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Olafur Bodvarsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Holmar Sigurdsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.