Marked for Carlos Jacinto
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 Aug 2026
A hiding for Gefle
Beaten 0‑6 by Malmo FF, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market31 Aug 2026
Carlos Jacinto has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gefle they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Gefle
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad31 Aug 2026
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Gefle and Malmo FF, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Amadeus Sögaard
“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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Inquest at Gefle
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match15 Aug 2026
A hiding for Gefle
Beaten 1‑4 by Djurgarden, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Gefle
0‑4 against Malmo FF, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Malmo FF follows Gefle home
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 17 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Gefle 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $20.0K — a club that wants Jakob Jäger Röding enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with BK Hacken is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to GIF Sundsvall this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alen Zahirović has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gefle they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with IFK Norrkoping, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Alen Zahirović 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Måns Berggren for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Gefle will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Gefle
Deniz Yaldir and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dejan Ibrahimovic is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oscar Olsen 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.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 saves: Max Croon was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market3 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mamadou Kouyaté will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gefle the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eric Larsson and Gefle agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gefle
Eric Larsson 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Carlos Jacinto scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Halmstad, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad3 Aug 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Deniz Yaldir
“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.
Market3 Aug 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.
In brief
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Market
24 months and counting on Yukiya Sugita
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Stephen Bolma is in the works