The Hammarby Chronicle
Squad5 Apr 2027
73 days out for Nahir Besara after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hammarby will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets5 Apr 2027
$1.8M settles it between the clubs for Matteo Rizzo
Cosenza have accepted the money. What Hammarby do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Waylon Renecke: 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.” Hammarby have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Up for the corner, and Markus Karlsson delivers — 7.97
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Markus Karlsson scored, was marked 7.97, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 10 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at Hammarby until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Match3 Apr 2027
Hammarby make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The step up is real for Yurii-Volodymyr Hereta
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Oskar Fallenius beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
6 academy graduates step up at Hammarby
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Markus Karlsson
- Market Hammarby promote Marcus Larsson from within
- Market One of our own: Anton Isak joins the Hammarby first team