The IFK Norrkoping Sentinel
Squad11 Nov 2030
Jonathan Levi 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 IFK Norrkoping this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Nov 2030
A row about effort at IFK Norrkoping
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gustav Berggren was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Nov 2030
5 new faces, and IFK Norrkoping are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout11 Nov 2030
The manager makes an example of Algot Hjelm
“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 dugout11 Nov 2030
João Pereira has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at IFK Norrkoping 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 dugout11 Nov 2030
Tim Prica 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 IFK Norrkoping, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout11 Nov 2030
A door opens for Sanders Ngabo
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market11 Nov 2030
The Gunnar Orri Olsen story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Gunnar Orri Olsen signs something — a contract at IFK Norrkoping or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Boardroom11 Nov 2030
The IFK Norrkoping production line keeps running
38 graduates out of an academy now rated 11 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.
In brief
- Squad Charlie Trustram has settled at IFK Norrkoping
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at IFK Norrkoping