The Randers Post
Squad16 Apr 2029
A fracture rules Petar Petrović out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Randers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Apr 2029
Martin Erlić wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Paul Izzo 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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Mathias Greve 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 dugout16 Apr 2029
The manager makes an example of Wessel Dammers
“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 dugout16 Apr 2029
Martin Erlić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Randers 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.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
Nikolai Hopland 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.
Market16 Apr 2029
The Elies Mahmoud talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Randers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
Randers keep producing them
23 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Erik Botheim
- Squad Emil Bachmann is out on the grass again