The Umeå FC Post
The terraces15 Jan 2029
Supporters organise against the Umeå FC board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market15 Jan 2029
Jonáš Mencl 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 Umeå FC can pretend not to have heard.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at Umeå FC
Edvin Lukačević and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Words at Umeå FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djoseph Bangala 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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Simon Krafth out for 29 days
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Simon Krafth, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad15 Jan 2029
The formation has left Mark Gibson behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Umeå FC will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
No hiding place for Kostas Roumeliotis
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kostas Roumeliotis, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Jan 2029
Viktor Rumyantsev asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market15 Jan 2029
The Nicolas Gammelgaard talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Umeå FC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Umeå FC pick up Mark Gibson for nothing
- Market Still no signature from Ville Nilsson
- Boardroom Umeå FC keep producing them