The AGF Herald
Squad24 Jul 2034
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ermal Meta
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jul 2034
Alexander Bundgaard asks to leave AGF
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout24 Jul 2034
Alexander Bundgaard says AGF went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market24 Jul 2034
Only the photograph left for Sixten Gustafsson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sixten Gustafsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGF the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2034
The paperwork begins on Mads Schmeichel
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. AGF have done the hard part with Brondby, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad24 Jul 2034
Tempers go at AGF
Elias Hagen 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.
Boardroom24 Jul 2034
8 academy graduates step up at AGF
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.
Squad24 Jul 2034
Words at AGF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Lauritsen 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 targets24 Jul 2034
Door shut on Christian Eriksen
AGF asked and Silkeborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Market Thomas Jorgensen steps up from the AGF academy
- Market Thomas Jensen steps up from the AGF academy
- Match A bad afternoon for AGF against Randers