The Degerfors Chronicle
Market14 Dec 2026
Mamadouba Diaby has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Degerfors they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Jesús Hernández: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Degerfors have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Degerfors
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nahom Girmai Netabay was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Sebastian Ohlsson 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 Degerfors this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Dec 2026
Still no ink between Degerfors and Matvei Igonen
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Degerfors, another week without a signature from Matvei Igonen.
Market14 Dec 2026
The Marcus Rafferty story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marcus Rafferty signs something — a contract at Degerfors or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Matvei Igonen wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Degerfors have no good answer.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes Erik Lindell a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Degerfors. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Oskar Gabrielsson 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 Oskar Gabrielsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ludvig Fritzson
- Squad Karl Olsson is out on the grass again