Aksel Lund

Central Midfielder - Esbjerg
8 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Aksel Lund

110 Edition

The Esbjerg Courier

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Lindsay Rose: 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.” Esbjerg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

The Aalborg deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Julius Lucena reports back to Esbjerg with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Squad

Alfie Harrison signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfie Harrison commits to Esbjerg for another 4 years.

Squad

Juan Ignacio Duma 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 Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ismahila Ouédraogo 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.

Match

Viborg take the points off Esbjerg

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mikail Maden

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Aksel Lund never got going

5.55 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

Market

The market said no: Nicolai Blicher stays put

Esbjerg opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Nicolai Blicher stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.

In brief

Back issues
103 Edition

The Esbjerg Courier

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Jonathan Foss 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 The request is on a desk at Esbjerg, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Real improvement from Nicolai Blicher at Esbjerg

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolai Blicher is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Esbjerg

Juan Ignacio Duma 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