Elion Imeri

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Kalmar FF
30 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Elion Imeri

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The Kalmar FF Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The small margins put Kalmar FF out

Out, 1‑1 to Västerås SK, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Kasper Paananen scores twice — 8.70

Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

IK Brage watching Samuel Brolin

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kalmar FF have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom

Kalmar FF close the window on a squad of their own making

9 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Jakob Kindberg is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kalmar FF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Kalmar FF go back to the board over Filip Öhman

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $28.4K — a club that wants Filip Öhman enough to be asked twice.

Market

Carl Gustafsson is a Kalmar FF player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Transfer targets

Kalmar FF make their move for Filip Öhman

$27.0K on the table at BK Hacken. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Melker Hallberg 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.

In brief

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The Kalmar FF Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Malcolm Stolt scores twice — 8.70

Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Kalmar FF say no — this time

The offer from Örgryte for Anthony Olusanya 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.

Player ratings

Marius Söderbäck was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

Kalmar FF make their move for Alex Rahm

$73.0K on the table at Örgryte. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Marius Söderbäck attracts admirers

The name of Marius Söderbäck has come up in conversations Kalmar FF were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Melker Hallberg 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.

Transfer targets

Kalmar FF rebuffed over Fallou Sene

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AC Horsens have kept their man, and Kalmar FF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Samuel Brolin

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

Market

Kalmar FF and Lars Sætra are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief