The IK Brage Courier
Squad11 Oct 2027
Jakob Rømo Skille in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at IK Brage this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Benjamin Machini gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Benjamin Machini has just signed for IK Brage, and for once the answer mattered.
Market11 Oct 2027
One of our own: Ludwig Berg joins the IK Brage first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ludwig Berg is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Oct 2027
One of our own: Karl Jansson joins the IK Brage first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karl Jansson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Oct 2027
Marcus Granqvist steps up from the IK Brage academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcus Granqvist has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Oct 2027
John Quaison steps up from the IK Brage academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. John Quaison has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Alexander Zetterström 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 dugout11 Oct 2027
When it matters, Anton Kurochkin 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
IK Brage counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at IK Brage now.
In brief
- Squad Bamir Sadiku wants out of the dugout
- Looking ahead Malte Persson goes back to face Kalmar FF
- The dugout Adam Sandström asks for a word with the manager