Marked for Robert Jorgensen
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad3 Jul 2028
19 days out for Robert Jorgensen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Esbjerg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Everything agreed with Rapid Wien, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at Esbjerg
Mikel Gogorza 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.
Market3 Jul 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Esbjerg asked and Viborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Jul 2028
Lasse Vigen told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lasse Vigen has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Esbjerg.
Market3 Jul 2028
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
7 new boys at the Esbjerg academy
Signed today, seen by nobody for years, and one of them may one day be the reason the club exists. That is the whole of the argument for an academy, and it is a good one.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Jun 2028
A fracture rules Robert Jorgensen out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Esbjerg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market26 Jun 2028
The chase for Jonas Dakir ended with $320.0K changing hands and Hobro out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Mikel Gogorza 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.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Esbjerg asked and Viborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Peter Bjur falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Esbjerg have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
A loan enquiry to Rapid Wien: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad26 Jun 2028
The formation has left Anders Noshe behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Esbjerg will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
Linus Thieler 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 May 2028
Tom de Graaff 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.
Market1 May 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Pierre-Emile Kjaer has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market1 May 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andreas Falk has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market1 May 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Jorgensen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market1 May 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mathias Christensen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad1 May 2028
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Sebastian Jarl has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad1 May 2028
Words at Esbjerg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magnus Westergaard 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.
Squad1 May 2028
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Esbjerg has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Match1 May 2028
Esbjerg have something to play for
Position 5 on 32 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.