The GIF Sundsvall Post
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Martin Isak is out at GIF Sundsvall
Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
A stranger takes charge at GIF Sundsvall
The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Interim Coach minds the shop at GIF Sundsvall
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Interim Coach recited it perfectly.
Market2 Apr 2029
Alieu Atlee Manneh puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at GIF Sundsvall, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at GIF Sundsvall until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market2 Apr 2029
Kawa Sulaiman is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at GIF Sundsvall is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets2 Apr 2029
Too dear: GIF Sundsvall walk away from Matthias Nartey
$270.0K was the most the club would pay and GAIS were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad2 Apr 2029
A row about effort at GIF Sundsvall
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lucas Forsberg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets2 Apr 2029
Hammarby tell GIF Sundsvall: Christ Wawa is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at GIF Sundsvall
- Market Marcus Ibrahimovic steps up from the GIF Sundsvall academy
- Market One of our own: Patrik Granqvist joins the GIF Sundsvall first team