Simon Granqvist

Right Midfielder - GAIS U18
2 Aug 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Simon Granqvist

56 Edition

The GAIS Chronicle

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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 The request is on a desk at GAIS, and it is not being withdrawn.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 ratings

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 ratings

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.

Boardroom

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.

Match

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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

Back issues
36 Edition

The GAIS Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for GAIS

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 12 in, 6 out at GAIS

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

Donavan Phillip is a medical away from GAIS

The deal with Colorado Rapids is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Stefen Tchamche will not be coming to GAIS

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AGF is saying, and nobody at GAIS is enjoying the guessing.

Player ratings

William Milovanović beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words exchanged at GAIS

Ibrahim Diabaté 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.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at GAIS

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Words at GAIS training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. William Milovanović 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.

Transfer targets

FC Nordsjaelland tell GAIS: Mark Brink is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief