Maxim Roox

Central Defender - Hobro
11 May 2029
Friday
Process

Marked for Maxim Roox

143 Edition

The Hobro Courier

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jordi Hernández hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hobro can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Anders Bergholt 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 Hobro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Runar Hauge 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 dugout

Anders Bergholt gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Anders Bergholt is on it.

Market

The shop window has Sjur Jonassen in it

Hobro have let the market know Sjur Jonassen can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Squad

Maxim Roox remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Hobro would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
142 Edition

The Hobro Courier

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jordi Hernández is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hobro is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at Hobro

Anders Bergholt and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Hobro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Runar Hauge 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.

Squad

Maxim Roox signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Maxim Roox commits to Hobro for another 4 years.

The dugout

Anders Bergholt asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Jordi Hernández gets it from the manager

“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.

In brief

141 Edition

The Hobro Courier

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Samuel Szakál has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hobro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Nicolai Boilesen 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 Hobro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Hobro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehmet Coşkun 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Hobro

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Loan watch

Lukas Falk has seen enough of SonderjyskE

“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 Hobro, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Anders Bergholt knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Anders Bergholt trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Maxim Roox is a square peg at Hobro

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

The Marco Bruhn question follows Hobro around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marco Bruhn’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

The shop window has Marco Bruhn in it

Hobro have let the market know Marco Bruhn can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief