Marked for Erik Flataker
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market14 Apr 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Midtjylland is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Apr 2036
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hakim Sulemana 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.
Squad14 Apr 2036
Kubrat Onasci 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.
Market14 Apr 2036
“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.
Loan watch14 Apr 2036
“I did not go to Aarhus Fremad to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Midtjylland and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
“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.
Squad14 Apr 2036
Too much change too quickly at FC Midtjylland
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.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
Erik Flataker 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 Erik Flataker trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout14 Apr 2036
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.
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Crisis
Boardroom24 Mar 2036
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Match19 Mar 2036
Out, 0‑1 to FC Copenhagen, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Mar 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andreas Gülstorff will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Midtjylland the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
“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.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Erik Flataker 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.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hakim Sulemana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom24 Mar 2036
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 dugout24 Mar 2036
“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 dugout24 Mar 2036
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Uneasy
Market17 Mar 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Midtjylland is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom17 Mar 2036
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Malte Ljungkull has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Paweł Chrupałła gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Paweł Chrupałła has just signed for FC Midtjylland, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hakim Sulemana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Genaro Giordani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch17 Mar 2036
“I did not go to Aarhus Fremad to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Midtjylland and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Too much change too quickly at FC Midtjylland
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.
The dugout17 Mar 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikita Bozov, and the manager let it.
Market17 Mar 2036
Experience through the door at FC Midtjylland
Paweł Chrupałła arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
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Uneasy
Boardroom3 Mar 2036
Pressure builds in the FC Midtjylland boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market3 Mar 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Midtjylland is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom3 Mar 2036
The approach has been made to AC Horsens and the answer is somebody else's to give. These things are settled in private and reported in public, usually in that order.
Squad3 Mar 2036
Alaa Ghram 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.
Squad3 Mar 2036
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hakim Sulemana 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.
Squad3 Mar 2036
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation FC Midtjylland are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market3 Mar 2036
“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 dugout3 Mar 2036
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Midtjylland, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout3 Mar 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chris Atherton, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market18 Feb 2036
Dan Ballard hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Midtjylland can pretend not to have heard.
Market18 Feb 2036
Chris Atherton has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Midtjylland they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom18 Feb 2036
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Chris Atherton has agreed terms with FC Copenhagen for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad18 Feb 2036
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Gardenier 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 targets18 Feb 2036
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Nordsjaelland have kept their man, and FC Midtjylland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Feb 2036
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Feb 2036
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Midtjylland are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market18 Feb 2036
Lyngby are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. FC Midtjylland will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout18 Feb 2036
Iuri Moreira 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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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Feb 2036
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom4 Feb 2036
FC Midtjylland have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Boardroom4 Feb 2036
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market4 Feb 2036
Alaa Ghram hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Midtjylland can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Feb 2036
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. FC Midtjylland have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom4 Feb 2036
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
The dugout4 Feb 2036
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Midtjylland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market4 Feb 2036
The offer from Molde for Kristian Tomov 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.
Market4 Feb 2036
Only the photograph left for Žiga Kranjc
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Žiga Kranjc will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Midtjylland the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Crisis
Market28 Jan 2036
Only the photograph left for Wandile Duba
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Wandile Duba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Midtjylland the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market28 Jan 2036
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Midtjylland can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout28 Jan 2036
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Midtjylland may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Erik Flataker 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 Jan 2036
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Gardenier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market28 Jan 2036
AC Horsens are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. FC Midtjylland will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Boardroom28 Jan 2036
The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.
The dugout28 Jan 2036
Viggo 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 dugout28 Jan 2036
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elias Olsson, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at FC Midtjylland is running low.
Market21 Jan 2036
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FC Midtjylland people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market21 Jan 2036
Tom Kljun 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 FC Midtjylland, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market21 Jan 2036
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Midtjylland is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Kubrat Onasci 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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Lucas Gardenier 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 targets21 Jan 2036
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 dugout21 Jan 2036
The manager makes an example of Erik Flataker
“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 dugout21 Jan 2036
The manager has not finished forgetting Lucas Gardenier'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.
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Crisis
Market17 Dec 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Midtjylland is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
Kristian Tomov: 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.” FC Midtjylland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad17 Dec 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Dec 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at FC Midtjylland can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad17 Dec 2035
Lucas Gardenier 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.
Match15 Dec 2035
Brondby left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Dec 2035
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
Alaa Ghram 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.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Uneasy
Market10 Dec 2035
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Midtjylland is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings10 Dec 2035
A defender's goal wins it for FC Midtjylland — 7.89
1 for Malte Ljungkull, marked 7.89, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
The dugout10 Dec 2035
Milan Mutsers: 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.” FC Midtjylland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market10 Dec 2035
“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 FC Midtjylland, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Dec 2035
Erik Flataker 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.
Squad10 Dec 2035
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Gardenier 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.
Match8 Dec 2035
AC Horsens left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings10 Dec 2035
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout10 Dec 2035
The manager makes an example of Henry Troset
“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.
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Upbeat
Boardroom26 Nov 2035
Pressure builds in the FC Midtjylland boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad26 Nov 2035
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market26 Nov 2035
Only the photograph left for Kerim Sejdic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kerim Sejdic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Midtjylland the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Elías Rafn Ólafsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings26 Nov 2035
Marked 9.51 — 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.
Match24 Nov 2035
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Erik Flataker. 3‑1 against SonderjyskE, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Gardenier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Nov 2035
Wandile Duba wants to finish where he started
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and FC Midtjylland now know that too.
The dugout26 Nov 2035
The manager makes an example of Erik Flataker
“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.
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Triumph
Match31 Oct 2035
A 1‑0 win over Hobro, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Boardroom5 Nov 2035
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at FC Midtjylland can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Match3 Nov 2035
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Aalborg spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Player ratings5 Nov 2035
A brace, and Erik Flataker takes the afternoon — 8.76
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Erik Flataker provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Nov 2035
“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.
Market5 Nov 2035
Wandile Duba has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Midtjylland they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout5 Nov 2035
“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.
Match3 Nov 2035
Three points for FC Midtjylland, 3‑2 the final word against Aalborg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Nov 2035
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Midtjylland are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Crisis
Boardroom29 Oct 2035
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at FC Midtjylland is running low.
Squad29 Oct 2035
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market29 Oct 2035
Kerim Sejdic has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Midtjylland they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad29 Oct 2035
Erik Flataker and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Oct 2035
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Gardenier 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.
Match28 Oct 2035
FC Copenhagen left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout29 Oct 2035
“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 dugout29 Oct 2035
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings29 Oct 2035
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
Market22 Oct 2035
Only the photograph left for Marius Nordal
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marius Nordal will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Midtjylland the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Oct 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Oct 2035
Wandile Duba scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to OB, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout22 Oct 2035
“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.
Squad22 Oct 2035
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at FC Midtjylland can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Jeppe Kudsk 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.
Squad22 Oct 2035
Too much change too quickly at FC Midtjylland
16 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.
The dugout22 Oct 2035
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Interim Coach left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout22 Oct 2035
Erik Flataker 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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Uneasy
Squad10 Sep 2035
Genaro Giordani damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Squad10 Sep 2035
37 days out for Jeppe Kudsk after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FC Midtjylland will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Sep 2035
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Midtjylland they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout10 Sep 2035
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Midtjylland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market10 Sep 2035
The bid was some way short and FC Midtjylland did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Erik Flataker 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.
Boardroom10 Sep 2035
The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.
Squad10 Sep 2035
No place for Erik Flataker in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation FC Midtjylland are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market10 Sep 2035
“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.
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Crisis
Boardroom3 Sep 2035
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Squad3 Sep 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Genaro Giordani
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Midtjylland lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Sep 2035
A fracture rules Jeppe Kudsk out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Midtjylland will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market3 Sep 2035
Nikita Bozov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Midtjylland can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom3 Sep 2035
Deadline passes with 41 signed and 38 gone
That is the business done at FC Midtjylland 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.
Squad3 Sep 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Sep 2035
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Midtjylland are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match1 Sep 2035
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Sep 2035
Kerim Sejdic 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.