The Valur Courier
Match1 May 2027
The wait goes on for Valur
4 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Tryggvi Hrafn Haraldsson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 May 2027
The goals have deserted Valur
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Valur can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad3 May 2027
Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson 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 Valur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom3 May 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Valur
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Valur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakob Franz Pálsson 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.
Market3 May 2027
One of our own: Ari Gunnarsson joins the Valur first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ari Gunnarsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 May 2027
Alfred Thorsteinsson steps up from the Valur academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alfred Thorsteinsson 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.
Market3 May 2027
Valur promote Alfred Bodvarsson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alfred Bodvarsson 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.
In brief
- Market Valur promote Bjorn Fridjonsson from within
- Player ratings Lúkas Logi Heimisson stands above it all
- Squad Jónatan Ingi Jónsson has become a man the manager trusts