The Öster Post
Market10 Jul 2028
Only the photograph left for Lukas Pihlblad
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lukas Pihlblad will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Öster the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad10 Jul 2028
A falling-out at Öster
Filip Olsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Oscar Uddenäs 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.
Match8 Jul 2028
Öster see off Sandviken
Three points for Öster, 2‑1 the final word against Sandviken in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Öster count the cost of losing Dejan Claesson
43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Ninety minutes of Aapo Mäenpää at his very best
Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Öster.
Match10 Jul 2028
The half-term report on Öster
Position 4, 25 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Vincent De Maria was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Anton Granqvist: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Sindre Mauritz-Hansen
- Squad Morten Trøen has had enough of the bench
- The dugout Öster pick somebody else ahead of Dennis Olsson