The FC Copenhagen Gazette
Market25 Jun 2029
Ola Brynhildsen asks to leave FC Copenhagen
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market25 Jun 2029
Matthew Hoppe says no to Alanyaspor
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Matthew Hoppe had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A move Christian Früchtl would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Christian Früchtl is living that version at FC Copenhagen, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Words exchanged at FC Copenhagen
Matt O'Riley 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.
Market25 Jun 2029
Only the photograph left for Rasmus Dalsgaard
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rasmus Dalsgaard will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Copenhagen the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A row about effort at FC Copenhagen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zachary Athekame was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market25 Jun 2029
One of our own: Kasper Damsgaard joins the FC Copenhagen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kasper Damsgaard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Too much change too quickly at FC Copenhagen
14 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
When it matters, Lorenzo Colombo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Boardroom $466.7K lands at FC Copenhagen thanks to Hunor Németh
- The dugout A promise honoured for Christian Früchtl
- The dugout A door opens for Ville Koski