The IF Elfsborg Post
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at IF Elfsborg 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A falling-out at IF Elfsborg
Rasmus Wikström and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Graduation day at IF Elfsborg
1 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market5 Apr 2027
Marcus Rohdén moves on
Malmo FF pay $120.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets5 Apr 2027
IF Elfsborg rebuffed over Joel Mvuka
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bodo/Glimt have kept their man, and IF Elfsborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market5 Apr 2027
One of our own: Viktor Kulusevski joins the IF Elfsborg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Kulusevski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 12605. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Adam Lustig out for 26 days
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Adam Lustig, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Jon Esenga 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.
In brief
- Squad Tim Erlandsson slips down the pecking order
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Jakob Svanberg on the draw
- Squad IF Elfsborg have started building around Bo Hegland