The IF Gnistan Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2027
Rachide Gnanou wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and IF Gnistan know it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at IF Gnistan
Rachide Gnanou 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Richmond Adeyeye at IF Gnistan
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Richmond Adeyeye is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at IF Gnistan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Evgeny Bashkirov 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Otto Hannula 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Edmund Arko-Mensah has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at IF Gnistan 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.
In brief
- The dugout Edmund Arko-Mensah asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Edmund Arko-Mensah question follows IF Gnistan around
- The dugout Ayo Obileye keeps his manager's vote