Marked for Balthasar A. Eck
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Feb 2029
A fracture rules Balthasar A. Eck out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason IA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Feb 2029
IA say no — this time
The offer from KR for Carlos Ayasta 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
-
Squad
Tempers go at IA
-
Squad
Ísak Máni Guðjónsson falls out with a teammate over standards
-
Boardroom
IA keep producing them
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Feb 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Luka Badžim 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad29 Jan 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad29 Jan 2029
“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; IA are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Tempers go at IA
Viktor Jónsson 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.
In brief
-
Squad
The manager makes an example of Antonio Roble
-
Boardroom
The IA board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Jan 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad22 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Words at IA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ísak Máni Guðjónsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Jan 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Tempers go at IA
Viktor Jónsson 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at IA training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Badžim 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Jan 2029
A fracture rules Balthasar A. Eck out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason IA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad8 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“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; IA are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
In brief
-
Squad
The manager has not finished forgetting Viktor Jónsson's mistake
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Jan 2029
A fracture rules Balthasar A. Eck out for 59 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason IA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad1 Jan 2029
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. IA will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad1 Jan 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Dec 2028
A fracture rules Balthasar A. Eck out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason IA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad25 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Luka Badžim 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Dec 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad18 Dec 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” IA may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Tempers go at IA
Viktor Jónsson 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Dec 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad11 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Dec 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Viktor Jónsson'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.
In brief
-
Squad
Words at IA training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Dec 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” IA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Viktor Jónsson and IA agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
-
Squad
Luka Badžim wants to go home
-
Boardroom
IA board back the manager