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From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer from Randers for Tim Prica 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Sanders Ngabo 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. IFK Norrkoping have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Alexander Fransson 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonas Weber
“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 dugout1 Feb 2027
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 Alexander Fransson has written the date down.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at IFK Norrkoping has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Leo Lif: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one IFK Norrkoping will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at IFK Norrkoping, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” IFK Norrkoping may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Sanders Ngabo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sondre Beite was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Sanders Ngabo 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 Sanders Ngabo is on it.
Market14 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Moutaz Neffati signs something — a contract at IFK Norrkoping or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at IFK Norrkoping. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑4 by Hammarby, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
No end in sight to IFK Norrkoping's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IFK Norrkoping has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad31 Aug 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 IFK Norrkoping this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Johan Hammar has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means IFK Norrkoping have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Leo Lif was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Eriksson, and the manager let it.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros wanted more than $3.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.86, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Malmo FF for David Mitov Nilsson 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with BK Hacken is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Stephen Bolma 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christoffer Nyman and IFK Norrkoping agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Christoffer Nyman 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Stephen Bolma goes
Falkenberg paid $60.0K and IFK Norrkoping took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.