The Aalborg Gazette
Squad19 Mar 2029
Tempers go at Aalborg
Birger Meling 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words at Aalborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathijs Tielemans 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 dugout19 Mar 2029
Marc Nielsen gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marc Nielsen is on it.
Market19 Mar 2029
Marokhy Ndione linked with a move away
The name of Marokhy Ndione keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aalborg say nothing, which says plenty.
Market19 Mar 2029
Bjarne Pudel runs his contract down
5 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Aalborg money.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
A door opens for Marc Nielsen
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
Davide Munari knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Davide Munari trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Boardroom19 Mar 2029
The Aalborg academy earns its keep
26 graduates, from a department now rated 9 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Adam Andersson is the talk of the training ground
Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Mikkel Kallesøe
- Squad Lukas Dalsgaard back in training