Nóa Joensen

Goalkeeper - FC Nordsjaelland
22 Aug 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Nóa Joensen

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The FC Nordsjaelland Herald

26 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Runar Norheim 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 FC Nordsjaelland can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Matej Tuka breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

A brace, and Nicolò Zaniolo takes the afternoon — 9.07

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nicolò Zaniolo provided it, and the 9.07 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Ibrahim Adel beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

FC Nordsjaelland say no — this time

The offer from FC Midtjylland for Nicklas Røjkjær 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.

Match

FC Nordsjaelland cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Nordsjaelland

Ola Solbakken 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

Nicolò Zaniolo 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Nóa Joensen at FC Nordsjaelland

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nóa Joensen is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

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The Randers Post

10 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Only the photograph left for Amady Camara

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Amady Camara will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Randers the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Randers

Paul Izzo 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.

Squad

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 dugout

No hiding place for Cyril Edudzi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cyril Edudzi, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Warren Caddy 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.

Market

Nikolas Dyhr linked with a move away

The name of Nikolas Dyhr keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Randers say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

A wage question at Randers

Benjamin Rasmussen has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

The dugout

Laurits Pedersen 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 Randers, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Reece Byrne: “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 Randers will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief