Baba Addo

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Brondby
21 Jan 2031
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Baba Addo

213 Edition

The Brondby Gazette

26 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Esbjerg come back empty-handed

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

Market

Mauricio Guzmán 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 Brondby can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Frederik Alves pops up at the right end — 7.91

7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market

Mauricio Guzmán has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Patrick Pentz 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.

Squad

Gift Links 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

The manager makes an example of Patrick Pentz

“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.

Match

Frederik Alves the difference as Brondby beat Randers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Frederik Alves. 2‑1 against Randers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Baba Addo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Baba Addo commits to Brondby for another 4 years.

In brief

Back issues
186 Edition

The Brondby Gazette

18 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Emersonn

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brondby lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Juan Bezerra 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 Brondby can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Brondby say no — this time

The offer from Viborg for Baba Addo 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.

Market

Brondby may not be able to give Javier Altamirano what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Javier Altamirano wants continental football; whether Brondby can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Market

Joachim Wind is on his way

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

Squad

Tempers go at Brondby

Patrick Pentz 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.

In brief

177 Edition

The Brondby Gazette

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Emersonn damages knee ligaments — 103 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 103 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.

Match

A European night to remember for Brondby

1‑0 against Paksi, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Market

Mauricio Guzmán asks to leave Brondby

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Baba Addo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Brondby may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Brondby

Patrick Pentz 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.

Squad

Words at Brondby training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Divković 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.

Market

Brondby may not be able to give Júnior Brumado what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Júnior Brumado wants continental football; whether Brondby can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Match

Brondby come up short against FC Nordsjaelland

FC Nordsjaelland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Javier Altamirano runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief