Marked for Rudi Vikström
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 19 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
Words exchanged at FF Jaro
Ryan Mahuta 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at FF Jaro can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ryan Mahuta 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 FF Jaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 17 days out for Johan Brunell
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. FF Jaro will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jim Myrevik, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Luca Weckström 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 FF Jaro, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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 FF Jaro will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FF Jaro is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mats Pedersen is the month’s best young player
At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. FF Jaro will try not to make too much of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Mats Pedersen
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Mats Pedersen has come out of that comparison in the side, and FF Jaro have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Johan Brunell
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at FF Jaro than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Jim Myrevik. FF Jaro will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
HJK next, and one man in the FF Jaro dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
10 saves: Senne Vits was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FF Jaro is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Oliver Kass Kawo has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jesper Svenungsen Skau and FF Jaro agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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 FF Jaro know it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at FF Jaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rudi Vikström 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
FF Jaro asked and Mjällby said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at FF Jaro has picked up the phone to Senne Vits
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Noah Sahsah is in the works
FF Jaro have made the call to Rosenborg. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.