Viktor Ekdal

Defensive Midfielder - Halmstad
7 Mar 2036
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468 Edition

The Halmstad Courier

16 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Jul 2035

The knee: Răzvan Morariu out for 70 days

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

Match16 Jul 2035

Halmstad refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Player ratings16 Jul 2035

Nobody could get near Ludvig Arvidsson

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market16 Jul 2035

Viktor Ekdal asks to leave Halmstad

“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.

The dugout16 Jul 2035

Joel Olsson says Halmstad went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match14 Jul 2035

After 8 games, Halmstad finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Östersund; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Match14 Jul 2035

A bad afternoon for Halmstad against Östersund

0‑1 to Östersund, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout16 Jul 2035

No hiding place for Diego Tortorella

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

Squad16 Jul 2035

A row about effort at Halmstad

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sam Svensson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

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455 Edition

The Halmstad Courier

16 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout16 Apr 2035

Gustav Berg says Halmstad went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market16 Apr 2035

Viktor Ekdal 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 Halmstad can pretend not to have heard.

Market16 Apr 2035

Sebastian Berg is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Halmstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets16 Apr 2035

Hammarby tell Halmstad: Robbie Ure is not for sale

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.

Squad16 Apr 2035

The decline has begun for Răzvan Morariu

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Halmstad is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Match14 Apr 2035

Orebro snatch it back from Halmstad

A goal on 88 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings16 Apr 2035

The afternoon belonged to Ludvig Arvidsson

A mark of 7.88, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad16 Apr 2035

Charles Rosén is a square peg at Halmstad

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.

Squad16 Apr 2035

Tempers go at Halmstad

Flavio Fuscaldi 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.

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435 Edition

The Halmstad Courier

27 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 Nov 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marcus Jansson

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

Market27 Nov 2034

Jakob Jansson puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Halmstad, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout27 Nov 2034

Daniel Lindelof: 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.” Halmstad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Tempers go at Halmstad

Mouhamed Sissokho 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.

Squad27 Nov 2034

Words at Halmstad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rio von Schéele Rosén 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.

Boardroom27 Nov 2034

85% of the income goes out in wages at Halmstad

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Market27 Nov 2034

Isaiah Ngbede is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Halmstad has been clear about where Isaiah Ngbede stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout27 Nov 2034

A promise honoured for Isaiah Ngbede

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

Market27 Nov 2034

The Aleksander Damnjanović Nilsson question follows Halmstad around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Aleksander Damnjanović Nilsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

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