Marked for Roberto Risnæs
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Feb 2030
“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.
Squad25 Feb 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kalmar FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Feb 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roberto Risnæs and Kalmar FF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market25 Feb 2030
Vilmer Tyrén is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kalmar FF has been clear about where Vilmer Tyrén stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market25 Feb 2030
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kalmar FF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad25 Feb 2030
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Kalmar FF has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Feb 2030
Kalmar FF say no — this time
The offer from Malmo FF for Samuel Brolin 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.
Squad4 Feb 2030
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market4 Feb 2030
Only the photograph left for Jakob Kindberg
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jakob Kindberg will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kalmar FF the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market4 Feb 2030
Samuel Brolin wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Kalmar FF hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Feb 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kalmar FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Feb 2030
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Isak, and the manager let it.
Market4 Feb 2030
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jakob Kindberg has his answer from Kalmar FF; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Kalmar FF will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The terraces4 Feb 2030
The stands have heard the Samuel Brolin talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Kalmar FF would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Aug 2029
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Anthony Olusanya 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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.73, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market13 Aug 2029
The name of Sam Quaison has come up in conversations Kalmar FF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match11 Aug 2029
It needed Abdussalam Magashy to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AIK, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
5.76 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.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
5.77 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.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jun 2029
Erik Grandelius: 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.” Kalmar FF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Jun 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 Kalmar FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Jun 2029
1‑2 to Orebro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matěj Žitný, and the manager let it.
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Jun 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Leos Tupec and Kalmar FF agree another 4 years.
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Steady
Squad28 May 2029
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market28 May 2029
Only the photograph left for Daniel Orduz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Orduz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kalmar FF the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 May 2029
Anthony Olusanya 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.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Marked 9.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad28 May 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rony Jansson, and the manager let it.
Match26 May 2029
GIF Sundsvall made Kalmar FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Defensive actions: 18, 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 May 2029
The one thing Malcolm Stolt could not do
Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.