Papa Thome

Central Midfielder - FC Midtjylland U20
15 Aug 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Papa Thome

146 Edition

The FC Midtjylland Herald

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cho Gue-Sung has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Midtjylland they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

Frederik Christensen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Midtjylland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Ovie Ejeheri wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FC Midtjylland hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Midtjylland

Kermit Mokotjo 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

Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rasmus Kristensen 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.

Squad

FC Midtjylland count the cost of losing Papa Thome

27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Loan watch

Juho Lähteenmäki counts the days

“I watch every FC Midtjylland game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at HJK runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Jannes von Diczelski signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jannes von Diczelski and FC Midtjylland agree another 4 years.

Market

FC Midtjylland sign Jannes von Diczelski, one for the future

Jannes von Diczelski is 20, and FC Midtjylland have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

Back issues
142 Edition

The FC Midtjylland Herald

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Cho Gue-Sung

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Cho Gue-Sung will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Midtjylland the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Halmstad come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Midtjylland did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Midtjylland

Kermit Mokotjo 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

Philip Billing 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

FC Midtjylland count the cost of losing Papa Thome

61 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Loan watch

Juho Lähteenmäki has seen enough of HJK

“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 FC Midtjylland, and 1 appearances in 35 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

When it matters, Mads Bech Sørensen plays

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 dugout

Ovie Ejeheri knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ovie Ejeheri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Philip Billing linked with a move away

The name of Philip Billing keeps appearing in other people's back pages. FC Midtjylland say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief