Marked for Malte Ljungkull
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Aug 2028
Adrian Svanbäck damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Aug 2028
Only the photograph left for Sabri Kondo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sabri Kondo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BK Hacken the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Aug 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 BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brice Wembangomo 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sanders Ngabo. 1‑0 against Djurgarden, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad28 Aug 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gottfrid Rapp commits to BK Hacken for another 4 years.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, BK Hacken had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
12 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market7 Aug 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 terraces7 Aug 2028
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Market7 Aug 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Aug 2028
The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Nikola Zečević, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrian Svanbäck 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.
Match5 Aug 2028
1‑2 to Helsingborg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch7 Aug 2028
“I watch every BK Hacken game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at IFK Goteborg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Olle Samuelsson, and the manager let it.
Market7 Aug 2028
The phone has started ringing about Harry Hilvenius again, and this time the name on the line is IFK Goteborg. BK Hacken are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Steady
Squad31 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Filip Helander
“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.
Market31 Jul 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. BK Hacken will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Alan Zalazar 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Etrit Berisha dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad31 Jul 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match29 Jul 2028
A 1‑1 draw with IFK Goteborg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad17 Jul 2028
Nikola Zečević: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” BK Hacken have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad17 Jul 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 BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Andersson 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.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch17 Jul 2028
14 appearances at AIK and the goals keep coming. BK Hacken are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Etrit Berisha dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Upbeat
Market5 Jun 2028
“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 BK Hacken, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
No sign of nerves from Mikkel Bro Hansen at 19 — 7.68
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Mikkel Bro Hansen did not need any: 7.68, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Olle Samuelsson 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.
Match3 Jun 2028
Whatever happens, BK Hacken do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Andersson 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.
Loan watch5 Jun 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at BK Hacken, and 2 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces5 Jun 2028
At 19 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.
Match3 Jun 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mikkel Bro Hansen. 1‑0 against IFK Norrkoping, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.