The Halmstad Courier
Match4 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Halmstad
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market6 Sep 2027
Only the photograph left for Filip Schyberg
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Filip Schyberg will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Halmstad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tim Rönning 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 Halmstad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Rocco Ascone gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Pablo Barboza 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Omar Faraj in the eights
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Carl Björk
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Halmstad count the cost of losing Sam Ekdal
43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match4 Sep 2027
Halmstad share the spoils with IFK Goteborg
A 1‑1 draw with IFK Goteborg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Joel Allansson in it
- Market Adam Wihed leaves for nothing
- Loan watch Gustav Friberg cannot get a game at Djurgarden