Sam Roovers

Central Defender - Aalborg
20 Feb 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sam Roovers

74 Edition

The Aalborg Gazette

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Aalborg board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Aalborg

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Sam Roovers arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Sam Roovers has, at Aalborg, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Sondre Langås 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to David Moses

At 23 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.

Match

Aalborg see off AC Horsens

Three points for Aalborg, 1‑0 the final word against AC Horsens in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Tempers go at Aalborg

Valdemar Møller 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 ratings

Mikkel Kallesøe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

No hiding place for Adam Andersson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Andersson, and the manager let it.

In brief