The Halmstad Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
IA come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Halmstad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Halmstad bid $740.0K for Elliot Stroud
The offer went to Mjällby this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Halmstad go back to the board over Elliot Stroud
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $778.8K — a club that wants Elliot Stroud enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Omar Faraj signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Omar Faraj commits to Halmstad for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Johan Arvidsson
Halmstad asked and Sandviken said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Anton Lundin 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 Halmstad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Halmstad promote Isak Larsson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Isak Larsson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Martin Guidetti joins the Halmstad first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Guidetti is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Simon Kulusevski steps up from the Halmstad academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Simon Kulusevski has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Niilo Mäenpää
- Squad 6 new faces, and Halmstad are still learning each other
- Match Halmstad share the spoils with Hammarby