Marked for Esteban Alfaro
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match15 May 2028
B.93 are in real trouble now
Position 11, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad15 May 2028
32 days out for Jannik Hojlund after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. B.93 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market15 May 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at B.93 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad15 May 2028
Alexi Pitu 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.
Squad15 May 2028
Tempers go at B.93
Sulayman Bojang 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.
Boardroom15 May 2028
Wages eat 107% of everything B.93 earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad15 May 2028
“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 B.93 know it.
The dugout15 May 2028
Malthe Boesen 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 dugout15 May 2028
Julius Voldby has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at B.93 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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Boardroom8 May 2028
Robert Olsen has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at B.93 can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Squad8 May 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 May 2028
Julius Voldby has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around B.93 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout8 May 2028
This is not rotation. Mikkel Wohlgemuth has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at B.93 is pretending otherwise.
Squad8 May 2028
A row about effort at B.93
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexi Pitu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 May 2028
Tempers go at B.93
Oscar Moreso 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.
Squad8 May 2028
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at B.93 can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout8 May 2028
Frederik Ibsen is still paying for one afternoon at B.93
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 dugout8 May 2028
Alexi Pitu without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Alexi Pitu was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
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Crisis
Squad13 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at B.93
Alexi Pitu 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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Oscar Moreso arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Oscar Moreso has, at B.93, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
This is not rotation. Mikkel Wohlgemuth has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at B.93 is pretending otherwise.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Wilhelm Nilsson 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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
“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 B.93 know it.
Loan watch13 Mar 2028
“I did not go to SonderjyskE to sit and watch. I want to come back to B.93 and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
Frederik Ibsen is still paying for one afternoon at B.93
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.
Market13 Mar 2028
Leo Minelli is 20, and B.93 have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
Alexi Pitu 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
Market10 Jan 2028
“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.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
This is not rotation. Ludvig Henriksen has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at B.93 is pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Tempers go at B.93
Alexi Pitu 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 Jan 2028
A row about effort at B.93
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Wilhelm Nilsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“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 B.93 know it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Frederik Ibsen 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
B.93 have made the call to Viborg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
A loan enquiry to Västerås SK: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at B.93
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Market
Søren Eg Pedersen told to find a new club
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Boardroom
The numbers do not look good at B.93
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Uneasy
The dugout13 Dec 2027
This is not rotation. Ludvig Henriksen has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at B.93 is pretending otherwise.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Alexi Pitu 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 B.93 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Esteban Alfaro is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Wilhelm Nilsson 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 dugout13 Dec 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.
Match11 Dec 2027
Kolding IF left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Looking ahead13 Dec 2027
Everything rides on Hvidovre
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. B.93 know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
“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.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Evan Weir 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 Evan Weir trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market1 Nov 2027
Evan Weir 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 B.93, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 Nov 2027
55 days out for Simon Eriksen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. B.93 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words exchanged at B.93
Alexi Pitu 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
This is not rotation. Tobias Blidegn has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at B.93 is pretending otherwise.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at B.93 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wilhelm Nilsson 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Viborg made B.93 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
Wages swallow 127% of the B.93 income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Abdoulaye Gouba
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at B.93 can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender's goal wins it for B.93 — 7.96
1 for Jacob Andersen, marked 7.96, 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 dugout20 Sep 2027
This is not rotation. Ludvig Henriksen has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at B.93 is pretending otherwise.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match18 Sep 2027
Hvidovre made B.93 work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at B.93 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wilhelm Nilsson 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at B.93
André Rømer 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.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Uneasy
Market6 Sep 2027
Malthe Boesen 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 B.93 can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Sep 2027
The deal that would have taken Sulayman Bojang to Randers has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to B.93 with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 19 signed and 9 gone
That is the business done at B.93 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Aalborg is saying, and nobody at B.93 is enjoying the guessing.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at B.93
Alexi Pitu 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Kolding IF wanted more than $77.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at B.93 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wilhelm Nilsson 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages swallow 117% of the B.93 income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Everybody at B.93 saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
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Crisis
Match12 Jul 2027
B.93 are in real trouble now
Position 12, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market12 Jul 2027
“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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
An offer of $160.0K for Adama Deme
B.93 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at B.93
Alexi Pitu 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at B.93
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Haris Brkić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Nordsjaelland have kept their man, and B.93 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Jul 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at B.93, another week without a signature from Evan Weir.
Squad12 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Enzo Couderc commits to B.93 for another 3 years.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Alexi Pitu 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 Alexi Pitu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what B.93 can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at B.93
Alexi Pitu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at B.93 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Wilhelm Nilsson 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 targets5 Jul 2027
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.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at B.93
7 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
He is 19, and nobody at B.93 signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Enzo Couderc commits to B.93 for another 3 years.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the B.93 academy
7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
In brief
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The dugout
Alexi Pitu asks for a word with the manager
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The dugout
A promise honoured at B.93
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Market
B.93 shop where it costs nothing