The IF Elfsborg Post
Squad3 Apr 2028
54 days out for Niklas Hult after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. IF Elfsborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market3 Apr 2028
Jon Esenga agrees terms with Umeå FC
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around IF Elfsborg people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
Window shuts: 9 in, 7 out at IF Elfsborg
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Words exchanged at IF Elfsborg
Thomas Isherwood 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.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
Graduation day at IF Elfsborg
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces3 Apr 2028
The crowd has taken to Gottfrid Rapp
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market3 Apr 2028
IF Elfsborg promote Mikael Augustinsson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mikael Augustinsson 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.
Market3 Apr 2028
One of our own: Viktor Krafth joins the IF Elfsborg first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Viktor Krafth is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market3 Apr 2028
IF Elfsborg promote Marcus Berg from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcus Berg 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 Abdoulie Manneh reaches 100 appearances
- Boardroom IF Elfsborg board go back on their word
- The dugout No hiding place for Ari Sigurpálsson