Marked for Rinor Rexhepi
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad29 May 2028
Marc Manchón 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.
Squad29 May 2028
Liam Vabö 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.
Boardroom29 May 2028
The numbers do not look good at Kampaniakos
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The dugout29 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iordanis Kesidis, and the manager let it.
The dugout29 May 2028
The manager makes Rinor Rexhepi a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Kampaniakos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout29 May 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antonis Dermitzakis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad8 May 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matas Vareika commits to Kampaniakos for another 4 years.
Squad8 May 2028
Xiscu Martínez 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.
Squad8 May 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Liam Vabö was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 May 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout8 May 2028
Matas Vareika 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 dugout8 May 2028
Nobody at Kampaniakos will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad8 May 2028
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Kampaniakos would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market8 May 2028
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Kampaniakos money.
Market8 May 2028
The Germán story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Germán signs something — a contract at Kampaniakos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Boardroom24 Apr 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Kampaniakos
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Kampaniakos is running low.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Marc Manchón and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Manuel Pedro 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 dugout24 Apr 2028
“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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
Rinor Rexhepi knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kampaniakos, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liam Vabö 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.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market17 Apr 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Xiscu Martínez signs something — a contract at Kampaniakos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Rinor Rexhepi 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 Rinor Rexhepi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Kampaniakos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Apr 2028
Marc Manchón 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Pedro 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.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
“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 dugout10 Apr 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market10 Apr 2028
The Germán story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Germán signs something — a contract at Kampaniakos or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market10 Apr 2028
The clock does Manuel Pedro’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Kampaniakos could ask drops and the wages Manuel Pedro can ask rise.
Match10 Apr 2028
Continental football is in reach for Kampaniakos
26 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Rinor Rexhepi has written the date down.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Kampaniakos will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Upbeat
Boardroom27 Mar 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Kampaniakos
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Kampaniakos is running low.
Squad27 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paris Ntoumanis 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.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Matas Vareika 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 Matas Vareika trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
The manager makes an example of Stathis Dimou
“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 dugout27 Mar 2028
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Rinor Rexhepi has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Squad6 Mar 2028
Marc Manchón 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Paris Ntoumanis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Wages eat 93% of everything Kampaniakos earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Kampaniakos now.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Rinor Rexhepi 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 Rinor Rexhepi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
The manager makes Álvaro Juan a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Kampaniakos. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Feb 2028
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
Pressure builds in the Kampaniakos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Michalis Voriazidis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manuel Pedro was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Álvaro Juan
“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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Kampaniakos will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Jan 2028
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 Jan 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Kampaniakos have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom31 Jan 2028
Pressure builds in the Kampaniakos boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market31 Jan 2028
“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.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Stathis Dimou: 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.” Kampaniakos have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad31 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Kampaniakos asked and Segesta said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Manuel Pedro 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.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Jan 2028
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jan 2028
Manuel Pedro 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 Kampaniakos can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Xiscu Martínez and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
Kampaniakos asked and Anagennisi Karditsa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Liam Vabö was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thodoris Albanis, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
A loan enquiry to Segesta: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets24 Jan 2028
A loan move for Javi Mier is in the works
Kampaniakos have made the call to Levadiakos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Paris Ntoumanis has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kampaniakos will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad10 Jan 2028
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kampaniakos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market10 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match8 Jan 2028
Nobody wants to play Kampaniakos right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Michalis Voriazidis 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.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Pedro 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.
Match8 Jan 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giannis Satsias. 1‑0 against Niki Volos, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Álvaro Juan 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.
Boardroom10 Jan 2028
107% of the income goes out in wages at Kampaniakos
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
112 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kampaniakos lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Marc Manchón 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Words at Kampaniakos training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Manuel Pedro 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.
The terraces29 Nov 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rinor Rexhepi, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Kampaniakos are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Eleftherios Torosidis kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
Germán stands alone
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match25 Sep 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Isi Ros did the work nobody counts — 6.82
15 combined actions and 6.82. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Marc Manchón 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 Kampaniakos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Manuel Pedro 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Rinor Rexhepi
“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 dugout27 Sep 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Eleftherios Torosidis after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Marc Manchón is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 6 gone
That is the business done at Kampaniakos until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Xiscu Martínez 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
$16.0K was the most the club would pay and PAOK were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Manuel Pedro 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market6 Sep 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Kampaniakos signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Too much change too quickly at Kampaniakos
5 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market21 Jun 2027
$11.8M. No player has ever cost Randers more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rinor Rexhepi
21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Randers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Jun 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market21 Jun 2027
Hillerød come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Randers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Randers can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Maks Ebong gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Maks Ebong has just signed for Randers, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Cyril Edudzi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad21 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
$11.8M for Maks Ebong, and Randers supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Maks Ebong from CSKA Sofia for $11.8M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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Crisis
Squad14 Jun 2027
Rinor Rexhepi damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
An offer of $11.8M for Maks Ebong
Randers have gone to CSKA Sofia with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market14 Jun 2027
Mike Themsen 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 Randers can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Nikolas Dyhr again, and this time the name on the line is Hvidovre. Randers are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Randers
Elies Mahmoud and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Alexander Hansen is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cyril Edudzi commits to Randers for another 4 years.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Union Berlin have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Crisis
Squad7 Jun 2027
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Randers lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Nicolai Andersen has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Randers can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market7 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Randers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jun 2027
Randers say no — this time
The offer from Berekum Chelsea for Cyril Edudzi 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Randers
Elies Mahmoud 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Randers asked and Aalborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Randers know it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Randers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Warren Caddy 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Nothing to show for Mert Demirci's season away
0 appearances, 0 clean sheets, and a goalkeeper no further forward than the day he left. Whether that belongs to him, to the club that borrowed him or to the people who arranged it is the argument Randers will have this month.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
Rinor Rexhepi damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The terraces31 May 2027
The mood at Randers 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.
Boardroom31 May 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Randers
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad31 May 2027
29 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad31 May 2027
A falling-out at Randers
Martin Sjølstad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Randers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vito Hammershøy-Mistrati 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.
Loan watch31 May 2027
“I watch every Randers game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Hobro runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Cyril Edudzi
“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 dugout31 May 2027
Daniel Høegh 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 Daniel Høegh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.