Marked for Šimon Jalovičor
From our football correspondent
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Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market5 Jul 2027
Omar Sowe 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 The request is on a desk at IBV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2027
209 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” IBV may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at IBV training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Víctor Villalba 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at IBV who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
In brief
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Boardroom
Intake day at the IBV academy
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Match
IBV draw a blank against Fjolnir
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Player ratings
The pass was always on for Omar Sowe
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Mar 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at IBV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alex Freyr Hilmarsson commits to IBV for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Omar Sowe in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IBV this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. IBV have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market15 Feb 2027
IBV say no — this time
The offer from Sarpsborg 08 for Þorri Heiðar Bergmann 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at IBV
Omar Sowe 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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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for IBV
0‑1 against IA, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sigurður Arnar Magnússon will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IBV the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Šimon Jalovičor would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Šimon Jalovičor is living that version at IBV, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for IBV
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around IBV are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Sigurður Arnar Magnússon has agreed terms with Valur for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at IBV
Omar Sowe 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Šimon Jalovičor commits to IBV for another 4 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Víctor Villalba 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.