Daniel Hojlund

Attacking Midfielder (L) - FC Copenhagen U18
9 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Hojlund

88 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Hojlund

17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Copenhagen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Gabriel Pereira hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Copenhagen can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Hunor Németh has said yes to FH

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. FC Copenhagen have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The dugout

Oliver Højer: 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.” FC Copenhagen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Dominik Kotarski wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at FC Copenhagen hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Tempers go at FC Copenhagen

Alex Král 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Dominik Kotarski

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. FC Copenhagen told Dominik Kotarski something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Jannik Maehle signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jannik Maehle and FC Copenhagen agree another 3 years.

The dugout

Junnosuke Suzuki has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at FC Copenhagen 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.

In brief

Back issues
87 Edition

The FC Copenhagen Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Daniel Hojlund out for 25 days

25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Copenhagen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

TPS come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and FC Copenhagen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Sylvester Hildebrandt signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sylvester Hildebrandt and FC Copenhagen agree another 4 years.

Squad

Mads Jørgensen 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 FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

FH expected to open talks for Hunor Németh

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. FC Copenhagen will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The dugout

Felix Beijmo 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 Felix Beijmo is on it.

Market

The Junnosuke Suzuki talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Copenhagen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sylvester Hildebrandt

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sylvester Hildebrandt, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Oliver Højer 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 Oliver Højer trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief