Marked for Loris Thaqi
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Jan 2036
Loris Thaqi breaks a bone — 87 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Jan 2036
“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.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Hobro
Frederik Dietz 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.
In brief
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Squad
Lukas Falk falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
92% of the income goes out in wages at Hobro
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Squad
When it matters, Dimitrij Nadirov plays
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
The scrutiny sharpens at Hobro
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Hobro is running low.
Match21 Jan 2036
Every point is an argument now for Hobro
Position 11 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Loris Thaqi breaks a bone — 94 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Words at Hobro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lee Han-Beom 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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Hobro
Martim Madeira 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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Hobro told Damián Barraco something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces14 Jan 2036
The mood at Hobro has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Loris Thaqi breaks a bone — 101 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Hobro
Frederik Christensen 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom7 Jan 2036
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad7 Jan 2036
Loris Thaqi breaks a bone — 108 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 108 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Jan 2036
The Hobro board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 Jan 2036
“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.
Squad7 Jan 2036
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.
Squad7 Jan 2036
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aaron Herzog and Hobro agree another 1 years.
Market7 Jan 2036
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Damián Barraco has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Hobro.
Market7 Jan 2036
The Lee Han-Beom talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Hobro know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom7 Jan 2036
Hobro pull $1.3M back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Dec 2035
Loris Thaqi breaks a bone — 115 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Dec 2035
Tempers go at Hobro
Frederik Christensen 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.
Squad31 Dec 2035
Lee Han-Beom 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom24 Dec 2035
The scrutiny sharpens at Hobro
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Hobro is running low.
Match24 Dec 2035
Hobro are in real trouble now
Position 11, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad24 Dec 2035
Loris Thaqi breaks a bone — 122 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 122 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.