Marked for Adama Deme
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Steady
Market18 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Midtjylland, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Aral Şimşir 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.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
“I did not go to SonderjyskE to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Midtjylland and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pedro Bravo commits to FC Midtjylland for another 5 years.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mikael Uhre 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match18 Nov 2026
Out, 0‑0 to SonderjyskE, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ovie Ejeheri is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ovie Ejeheri: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match21 Nov 2026
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A defender's afternoon for Chichi Capo
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Aral Şimşir 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, FC Midtjylland do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around FC Midtjylland are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
One of those days for Victor Bak
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.09, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Pedro Bravo
“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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to SonderjyskE to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Midtjylland and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Upbeat
Market28 Sep 2026
Martin Erlić 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 Midtjylland can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, FC Midtjylland do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.70, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over SonderjyskE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Bravo, and the manager let it.