The OB Post
Market14 Jan 2030
Terms done: Laurits Pedersen is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and FC Midtjylland waiting with a shirt. Nobody at OB is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
Rasmus Lauritsen says OB 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.
Market14 Jan 2030
Ayanda Ngcobo asks to leave OB
“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.
Squad14 Jan 2030
A falling-out at OB
Ulrik Yttergård Jenssen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Adam Sørensen 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.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
When it matters, Jona Niemiec plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
No hiding place for Zoey Monyepao
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zoey Monyepao, and the manager let it.
Market14 Jan 2030
Alexander Lyng linked with a move away
The name of Alexander Lyng keeps appearing in other people's back pages. OB say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
Julius Berthel Askou knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Julius Berthel Askou trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Daniel Hojlund leaves for nothing
- Squad Adam Sørensen is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Welcome back, Trevor Mokwena