Marked for Raphael Canut
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces26 Apr 2027
Supporters organise against the Brondby board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match26 Apr 2027
Every point is an argument now for Brondby
Position 10 and 22 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad26 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Raphael Canut out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brondby will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Luis Binks 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.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“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 Brondby, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
Market26 Apr 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Brondby know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Filip Bundgaard plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Squad19 Apr 2027
28 days out for Raphael Canut after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Brondby will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Brondby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sean Klaiber 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.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“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 Brondby, and 1 appearances in 8 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Bartosz Slisz 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 Bartosz Slisz is on it.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Luis Binks story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Luis Binks signs something — a contract at Brondby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
3 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Matej Delac 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 Brondby, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager comes out for Sho Fukuda
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Sho Fukuda has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Squad12 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Raphael Canut out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brondby will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Apr 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rasmus Lauritsen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Brondby the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Brondby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sean Klaiber 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Brondby are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Brondby
Sho Fukuda 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.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to AGF to sit and watch. I want to come back to Brondby and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Patrick Pentz has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brondby 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
The Sean Klaiber story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sean Klaiber signs something — a contract at Brondby or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
11 appearances at Jagiellonia and the goals keep coming. Brondby are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Squad5 Apr 2027
Raphael Canut breaks a bone — 42 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Apr 2027
69 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emmanuel Boateng and Brondby agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ali Al-Najar is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Östersund to sit and watch. I want to come back to Brondby and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 32 matches say the rest.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Oliver Villadsen has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brondby 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Patrick Pentz’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market5 Apr 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Brondby, another week without a signature from Matej Delac.
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The terraces29 Mar 2027
Supporters organise against the Brondby board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match29 Mar 2027
Brondby sink to position 10
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Raphael Canut out for 50 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brondby will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces29 Mar 2027
Marko Divković has gone, the accounts have $4.5M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market29 Mar 2027
GAIS paid $4.5M and Brondby took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad29 Mar 2027
The step up is real for Jacob Ambæk
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Sean Klaiber 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Sho Fukuda 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 Brondby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Lyngby to sit and watch. I want to come back to Brondby and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Match17 Mar 2027
Brondby march on in the cup
AGF are out and Brondby go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
58 days out for Raphael Canut after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Brondby will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market22 Mar 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Match17 Mar 2027
Brondby end the wait against AGF
It had gone 10 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Market22 Mar 2027
Brondby say no — this time
The offer from Brommapojkarna for Jacob Ambæk 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.
Market22 Mar 2027
Add another name to the list: GAIS have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marko Divković. The answer from Brondby has not changed — yet.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Brondby
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sean Klaiber was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Brondby
Sho Fukuda and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luis Binks, and the manager let it.