The IA Gazette
Market8 Mar 2027
Rafael Máni Þrastarson sold, and an era ends
$230.0K from Breidablik for Rafael Máni Þrastarson. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
IA sell a favourite for $230.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Rafael Máni Þrastarson was one of the reasons people came, and $230.0K does not replace that by itself.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Aron Bjarnason turns down IA
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Breidablik keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Viktor Jónsson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Viktor Jónsson commits to IA for another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
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.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
IA rebuffed over Viktor Örn Margeirsson
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Breidablik have kept their man, and IA go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Mar 2027
IA sign Albert Heyde, one for the future
Albert Heyde is 20, and IA 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
IA are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Sergio Felipe still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at IA would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
- The dugout Hilmar Elís Hilmarsson knocks on the manager's door
- Market Steinar Þorsteinsson linked with a move away
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jón Sölvi Símonarson