Daniel Olsen

Left Forward - Esbjerg
23 Oct 2035
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Daniel Olsen

481 Edition

The Esbjerg Courier

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Daniel Jorgensen

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Daniel Olsen: 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.” Esbjerg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Marin Laušić, 34, rolls back the years — 8.59

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.59 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Markus Hegner asks to leave Esbjerg

“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.

Player ratings

Lucas Dogliotti goes up and wins it — 7.50

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.50 for the rest of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Esbjerg

Robby McCrorie 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.

Squad

Words at Esbjerg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriele Samir Jenzeri is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Esbjerg share the spoils with OB

A 2‑2 draw with OB leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

An afternoon Oleh Oleksandrivskyi will want back

Marked 5.31. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief

Back issues
475 Edition

The Esbjerg Courier

3 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Esbjerg sink to position 11

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

6 matches without a win for Esbjerg

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Esbjerg are no longer polite ones.

Squad

10 seasons of Markus Hegner

58 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Esbjerg know what they have.

Squad

Konstantinos Apostolakis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Konstantinos Apostolakis and Esbjerg agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Robby McCrorie 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 Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gabriele Samir Jenzeri falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Esbjerg come up short against Viborg

Viborg left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marin Laušić

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Richard Friedrich conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Hobro will make the call about Richard Friedrich this week. Esbjerg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

445 Edition

The Esbjerg Courier

5 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Esbjerg boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Esbjerg can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad

Konstantinos Apostolakis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Konstantinos Apostolakis and Esbjerg agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Robby McCrorie 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 Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Gabriele Samir Jenzeri falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Esbjerg lose Albert Heyde

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom

$1.6M taken back off the Esbjerg table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Market

Daniel Olsen joins Esbjerg on a free

No fee and no drama: Daniel Olsen has signed at Esbjerg, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

Market

Maxim Tkatsevich leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Maxim Tkatsevich leaves Esbjerg the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief