Marcus Claesson

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118 Edition

The Djurgarden Courier

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Oct 2028

Espen Garnås damages knee ligaments — 87 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 87 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad30 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Djurgarden

Kristian Strømland Lien and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad30 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Djurgarden

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Stensson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Filip Manojlović 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 Filip Manojlović is on it.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of Ukko Happonen

“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.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Nino Žugelj 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 Nino Žugelj trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad30 Oct 2028

Marcus Claesson is the weekend's best young player

At 16 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

Market30 Oct 2028

The Kristian Strømland Lien story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kristian Strømland Lien signs something — a contract at Djurgarden or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Boardroom30 Oct 2028

Djurgarden keep producing them

25 graduates from an academy now rated 11 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

Back issues
93 Edition

The Djurgarden Courier

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 May 2028

Felix Jakobsson decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match3 May 2028

Cup progress for Djurgarden

A 2‑2 win over GIF Sundsvall, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings8 May 2028

A brace, and Charlie Rosenqvist takes the afternoon — 8.11

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Charlie Rosenqvist provided it, and the 8.11 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings8 May 2028

Matias Siltanen, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.04

A mark of 8.04 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad8 May 2028

Tempers go at Djurgarden

Kristian Strømland Lien 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.

Player ratings8 May 2028

Nobody could get near Oskar Fallenius

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match6 May 2028

Djurgarden get the job done against Falkenberg

A 2‑1 win over Falkenberg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces8 May 2028

The crowd has taken to Charlie Rosenqvist

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad8 May 2028

A row about effort at Djurgarden

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Stensson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief