The GAIS Chronicle
Market23 Aug 2027
Oskar Ågren 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 The request is on a desk at GAIS, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A brace, and Ibrahim Diabaté takes the afternoon — 9.10
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ibrahim Diabaté provided it, and the 9.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Up for the corner, and Kevin Holmén delivers — 7.99
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Kevin Holmén scored, was marked 7.99, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
GAIS close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 11 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Ibrahim Diabaté sends GAIS past Landskrona BoIS
It finished 3‑1, and it was Ibrahim Diabaté’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to GAIS.
Market23 Aug 2027
Eyes on Matvei Igonen again
The phone has started ringing about Matvei Igonen again, and this time the name on the line is Brondby. GAIS are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at GAIS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robin Wendin Thomasson 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
GAIS count the cost of losing Simon Granqvist
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at GAIS
Matvei Igonen 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.
In brief
- The dugout Anton Hiljemark: “That is the standard”
- Market Varbergs BoIS are about to pick up the phone
- The dugout When it matters, August Wängberg plays