Marked for Fernando Carrillo
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout19 Mar 2029
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Market19 Mar 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around OB they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Mar 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at OB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words at OB training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ulrik Yttergård Jenssen 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.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
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Loan watch19 Mar 2029
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at OB, and 3 appearances in 37 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“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 OB will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
Noah Lassen gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Mar 2029
Vitus Friis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around OB they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at OB
Alexander Lyng 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.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rasmus Lauritsen commits to OB for another 2 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
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 dugout5 Mar 2029
The manager makes an example of Rasmus Falk
“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 dugout5 Mar 2029
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From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout19 Feb 2029
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Market19 Feb 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around OB they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” OB may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Feb 2029
A falling-out at OB
Ulrik Yttergård Jenssen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Fredrik Ulvestad 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 dugout19 Feb 2029
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Loan watch19 Feb 2029
“I watch every OB game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Brondby runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
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 Ulrik Yttergård Jenssen is on it.
Market19 Feb 2029
The name of Alexander Lyng keeps appearing in other people's back pages. OB say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The dugout12 Feb 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” OB may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets12 Feb 2029
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Vancouver Whitecaps keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Tempers go at OB
Alexander Lyng 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 targets12 Feb 2029
The clock did what Esbjerg would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A row about effort at OB
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Yttergård Jenssen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
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Squad12 Feb 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fernando Carrillo and OB agree another 4 years.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Adam Sørensen has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at OB 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 dugout12 Feb 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rasmus Lauritsen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.