Marked for Dagur Eyjolfsson
From our football correspondent
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The dugout15 Nov 2027
Dagur Eyjolfsson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fjolnir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Fjolnir training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tómas Orri Róbertsson 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 dugout15 Nov 2027
Orri Þórhallsson asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market15 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Fjolnir know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad15 Nov 2027
The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at Fjolnir says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Crisis
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fjolnir may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tómas Orri Róbertsson 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Fjolnir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daníel Hafsteinsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match18 Sep 2027
Elías Már Ómarsson scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to IBV, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
“I did not go to IBV to sit and watch. I want to come back to Fjolnir and fight for my place.” 9 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Arnor Gunnarsson to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
The team sheet said everything about Stefan Palsson
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Stefan Palsson.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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The terraces24 May 2027
The mood at Fjolnir has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Match22 May 2027
The wait goes on for Fjolnir
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match22 May 2027
Fjolnir leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match22 May 2027
The goals have deserted Fjolnir
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Fjolnir can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad24 May 2027
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.
Squad24 May 2027
Words exchanged at Fjolnir
Sölvi Sigmarsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match22 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Fjolnir against KR
0‑2 to KR, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guðmundur Rafn Ingason, and the manager let it.
Loan watch24 May 2027
“I watch every Fjolnir game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at IBV runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Market8 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Breidablik have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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 Breidablik, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The offer went to IBV 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with IA, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IBV have kept their man, and Breidablik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Fjolnir pay $20.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Davíð Ingvarsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Squad8 Feb 2027
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fjolnir lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Arnor Gunnarsson has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Fjolnir can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market8 Feb 2027
“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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Fjolnir have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The deal with Breidablik is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
The terraces8 Feb 2027
Fjolnir spend $20.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $20.0K for Dagur Eyjolfsson, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Fjolnir
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Árni Steinn Sigursteinsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fjolnir this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.