Marked for Gustav Tankovic
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at IA
15 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Nobody at IA will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Baldvin Þór Berndsen, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at IA
Viktor Jónsson 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 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Oscar Jansson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Baldvin Þór Berndsen and IA agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market19 Oct 2026
He is 14, and nobody at IA signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Juber Pereira 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 Juber Pereira is on it.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Kalmar FF bow out of the cup
Hammarby go through and Kalmar FF go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Kalmar FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with IFK Norrkoping, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Kalmar FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Melker Hallberg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kalmar FF have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match22 Aug 2026
Helsingborg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.