The FC Copenhagen Gazette
Squad1 May 2028
The knee: Jakob Busk out for 118 days
118 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Copenhagen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout1 May 2028
Mohamed Elyounoussi says FC Copenhagen 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.
Match1 May 2028
FC Copenhagen refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 32 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad1 May 2028
A falling-out at FC Copenhagen
Mohamed Elyounoussi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market1 May 2028
Alessandro Marcandalli raises the bar for FC Copenhagen
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at FC Copenhagen heard it as anything else.
Squad1 May 2028
Alex Král 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.
Market1 May 2028
One of our own: Simon Hojbjerg joins the FC Copenhagen first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Simon Hojbjerg 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
FC Copenhagen promote Alexander Dalsgaard from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexander Dalsgaard 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
FC Copenhagen promote Lasse Jorgensen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lasse Jorgensen 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.
In brief
- Squad Mikael Uhre is no longer first choice
- The dugout Alexander Busch gets it from the manager
- The dugout Mohamed Elyounoussi has become a man the manager trusts