15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. IBV lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Omar Sowe 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.
Paublo Jara 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Örn Friðriksson 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.
The offer from Valur for Alex Freyr Hilmarsson 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.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and IBV know it.
The words a physio says slowly. 53 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
“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 The request is on a desk at Al-Ra'ed, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al-Ra'ed this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadWords at Al-Ra'ed training over how hard people work