The Vejle Chronicle
Squad6 Mar 2028
A falling-out at Vejle
Giannis Papanikolaou and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market6 Mar 2028
Martin Cornelius steps up from the Vejle academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martin Cornelius 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: Rasmus Wind joins the Vejle first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rasmus Wind is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Mar 2028
Emil Wind steps up from the Vejle academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emil Wind 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Peter Andersen steps up from the Vejle academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Andersen 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Obasi Onyebuchi 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“I want to play”: Obasi Onyebuchi speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Opa Sanganté remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Vejle would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
A door opens for Lucas From
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- The dugout Obasi Onyebuchi asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Rasmus Lauritsen