The IA Gazette
The dugout5 Nov 2029
Heiðar Ægisson: 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.” IA have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market5 Nov 2029
Only the photograph left for Jón Sölvi Símonarson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jón Sölvi Símonarson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around IA the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Words exchanged at IA
Fernando Chávez 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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
A row about effort at IA
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Viktor Jónsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Nov 2029
The manager makes an example of Juber Pereira
“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.
Squad5 Nov 2029
Jon Saevarsson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jon Saevarsson and IA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout5 Nov 2029
Böðvar Böðvarsson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at IA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market5 Nov 2029
The Ómar Björn Stefánsson talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. IA know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Match5 Nov 2029
Continental football is in reach for IA
32 points from position 6. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
In brief
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Birnir Breki Burknason’s exile
- The dugout Jon Saevarsson asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom The IA production line keeps running