Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.
The shirt still fits. Alexander Fischer is back at FC Copenhagen, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
The shirt still fits. Thomas Kristensen is back at FC Copenhagen, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marcos López signs something — a contract at FC Copenhagen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FC Copenhagen has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
BoardroomThe FC Copenhagen production line keeps running
The offer from SonderjyskE for Felipe Karabulut 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Viborg will make the call about Samuel Adegbenro this week. FC Copenhagen have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Hunor Németh has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
The offer from Aalborg for Oscar Buur 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.
Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.
Add another name to the list: SonderjyskE have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Felipe Karabulut. The answer from FC Copenhagen has not changed — yet.
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
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. FC Copenhagen will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at FC Copenhagen heard it as anything else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Shots: 16. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FC Copenhagen has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Rasmus Lauritsen may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.
He is 21, he is averaging 7.12, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.
He is 21, he is averaging 7.12, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
The name of Oscar Buur has come up in conversations FC Copenhagen were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
“I watch every FC Copenhagen game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aalborg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rodrigo Huescas signs something — a contract at FC Copenhagen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nathan Trott trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Mohamed Elyounoussi 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.
A season average of 7.12 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. FC Copenhagen know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
“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 FC Copenhagen, and 0 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
He is 21, he is averaging 7.12, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Prince Amoako and FC Copenhagen agree another 5 years.
“I watch every FC Copenhagen game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Aalborg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rodrigo Huescas signs something — a contract at FC Copenhagen or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aalborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and FC Copenhagen have had the benefit of it.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at FC Copenhagen heard it as anything else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Copenhagen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at MTK Budapest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. MTK Budapest know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.