Simon Ergül

Left Back - Örgryte
24 Apr 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Simon Ergül

138 Edition

The Örgryte Herald

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Simon Ergül asks to leave Örgryte

“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.

Squad

Words at Örgryte training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikael Dyrestam 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 targets

Door shut on Nils Bertilsson

Örgryte asked and Malmo FF said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Home is on Hussain Al-Nattar's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Örgryte are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Örgryte

Linus Remahl 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.

Transfer targets

Örgryte ask about Ismet Lushaku

A loan enquiry to Hammarby: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Örgryte try to borrow Axel Kouamé

AIK 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.

The dugout

William Svensson 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 Örgryte, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Mattia Aliprandi is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Örgryte has been clear about where Mattia Aliprandi stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

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133 Edition

The Örgryte Herald

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

William Hofvander sold, and an era ends

$930.0K from IF Elfsborg for William Hofvander. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

The terraces

Örgryte sell a favourite for $930.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. William Hofvander was one of the reasons people came, and $930.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Marlon Ebietomere puts it in writing

“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 Örgryte, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Örgryte

Christoffer Styffe 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.

Squad

A move Eirik Paulshus Vold would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Eirik Paulshus Vold is living that version at Örgryte, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Charlie Vindehall 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.

Transfer targets

Örgryte rebuffed over Anes Čardaklija

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hammarby have kept their man, and Örgryte go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Örgryte

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout

Aydarus Abukar gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Aydarus Abukar is on it.

In brief

82 Edition

The Örgryte Herald

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Anton Andreasson 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 Örgryte can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Örgryte

Mikael Dyrestam and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Charlie Vindehall 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.

Transfer targets

IFK Goteborg tell Örgryte: Adam Svensson 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.

Transfer targets

Örgryte ask about Ermal Ymeri

A loan enquiry to IA: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

The formation has left Samuel Ramos behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Örgryte will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Hampus Gustafsson 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.

Market

Hampus Gustafsson linked with a move away

The name of Hampus Gustafsson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Örgryte say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Hampus Dahlqvist gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Hampus Dahlqvist is on it.

In brief