The IF Elfsborg Post
Market2 Apr 2029
Marcus Pettersson agrees terms with Östersund
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around IF Elfsborg people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
IF Elfsborg close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
IF Elfsborg tie Nils Berg down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
8 academy players handed senior numbers at IF Elfsborg
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad2 Apr 2029
A row about effort at IF Elfsborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rasmus Niklasson Petrovic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market2 Apr 2029
IF Elfsborg promote Daniel Isak from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Isak has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market2 Apr 2029
One of our own: Viktor Quaison joins the IF Elfsborg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Quaison is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market2 Apr 2029
Isak Krafth steps up from the IF Elfsborg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Isak Krafth has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
IF Elfsborg are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 14405. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at IF Elfsborg
- The dugout When it matters, Theo Sander plays
- Squad IF Elfsborg take the armband off Gottfrid Rapp