The Öster Post
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Öster part company with Adam Krafth
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Aapo Mäenpää damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Patrik Forsberg minds the shop at Öster
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Patrik Forsberg recited it perfectly.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Öster until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market2 Apr 2029
Brommapojkarna come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Öster did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market2 Apr 2029
Aleksander Sulland is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Öster is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at Öster
Oscar Uddenäs 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.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Öster
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.
Transfer targets2 Apr 2029
Jagiellonia tell Öster: Hampus Finndell is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Market Marcus Quaison steps up from the Öster academy
- Market Marcus Tankovic steps up from the Öster academy
- Squad Dennis Olsson falls out with a teammate over standards