The AIK Sentinel
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at AIK
Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Taha Ayari beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Gabriel Busanello 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Max Karimatsenga stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Max Karimatsenga and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch30 Aug 2027
Norton de Carvalho Otterud counts the days
“I watch every AIK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Orebro runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Johan Hammar
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Johan Hammar, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Lucas Assadi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AIK 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 dugout30 Aug 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Anton Jansson chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Market30 Aug 2027
Lucas Assadi linked with a move away
The name of Lucas Assadi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Match No goals between AIK and IF Elfsborg
- Looking ahead A reunion for Kalle Joelsson
- The dugout Kevin Filling knocks on the manager’s door