Marked for Atli Þór Jónasson
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Squad18 Jan 2027
67 days out for Gylfi Sigurðsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Vikingur
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Már Ómarsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nobody at Vikingur 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.
The dugout18 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.
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Squad11 Jan 2027
75 days out for Gylfi Sigurðsson after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
The dugout11 Jan 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.
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nikolaj Hansen’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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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
Gylfi Sigurðsson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vikingur 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Vikingur
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óskar Borgþórsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Vikingur, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Vikingur may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Nov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elías Már Ómarsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Nobody at Vikingur 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
Market23 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Vikingur will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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
Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Atli Þór Jónasson and Vikingur agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Nobody at Vikingur 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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Boardroom5 Oct 2026
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Vikingur will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Vikingur
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elías Már Ómarsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Vikingur are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Gylfi Sigurðsson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vikingur 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
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Triumph
Squad24 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Vikingur
A 1‑0 win over Breidablik, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match22 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match19 Aug 2026
Vikingur win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Breidablik will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match22 Aug 2026
Vikingur cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Red Bull Salzburg is saying, and nobody at Vikingur is enjoying the guessing.
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.78, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nikolaj Hansen, 33, rolls back the years — 8.01
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vikingur say no — this time
The offer from IA for Atli Þór Jónasson 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Sporting CP, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elías Már Ómarsson and Vikingur agree another 2 years.
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. Emil Arnason 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alfred Ingason has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Johann Arnason 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.