The Esbjerg Courier
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Tim Prica due for a Esbjerg medical
Everything agreed with IFK Norrkoping, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Kenay Myrie will not be coming to Esbjerg
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Copenhagen is saying, and nobody at Esbjerg is enjoying the guessing.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Esbjerg
Ola Solbakken and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Laerte Tognetti
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Esbjerg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lee Han-Beom was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Randers tell Esbjerg: Amin Al-Hamawi is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Alexander Drexel out for 18 days
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Alexander Drexel, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Kasper Kristensen
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Anton Skipper 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.
In brief
- Market Esbjerg and Hodei Barbarín are talking past each other
- The dugout The manager makes Jan Lammers a promise
- Market Esbjerg put Frederik Mortensen up for sale