The Valur Courier
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Tryggvi Hrafn Haraldsson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Kristján Oddur Haagensen has agreed to leave Valur for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Samúel Kári Friðjónsson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Samúel Kári Friðjónsson commits to Valur for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tryggvi Hrafn Haraldsson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Birkir Smarason joins the Valur first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Birkir Smarason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Birkir Palsson joins the Valur first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Birkir Palsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Runar Arnason joins the Valur first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Runar Arnason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Birkir Thorsteinsson joins the Valur first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Birkir Thorsteinsson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Valur are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad Samúel Kári Friðjónsson knocks on the manager’s door
- Match Point won or two lost for Valur?