Marked for Lamine Sadio
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Nordsjaelland may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market11 Jan 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Lévy Néne reports back to FC Nordsjaelland with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Caleb Yirenkyi 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Viborg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hjalte Boe. The answer from FC Nordsjaelland has not changed — yet.
Market11 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Justin Janssen has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at FC Nordsjaelland.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Noah Markmann, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Steady
Match18 Nov 2026
Randers are out and FC Nordsjaelland go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ola Solbakken 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
Lévy Néne runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match21 Nov 2026
0‑1 to SonderjyskE, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tobias Salquist
“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.
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Crisis
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Caleb Yirenkyi 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Viborg left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Andreas Hansen
“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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at FC Nordsjaelland needed to.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
12 appearances at FC Nordsjaelland and the goals keep coming. FC Nordsjaelland are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Market19 Oct 2026
The Mark Brink talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Nordsjaelland know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Match28 Sep 2026
Position 10, 8 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around FC Nordsjaelland are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Nordsjaelland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2026
Tobias Salquist scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Brondby, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Andreas Hansen
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A day to forget for Canadá
Marked 5.71, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The Viborg deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Noah Markmann reports back to FC Nordsjaelland with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Caleb Yirenkyi 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 206% of everything FC Nordsjaelland 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marius Marin
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.83 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Runar Norheim knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.