Marked for Jonas Andersen
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Jul 2032
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aalborg can pretend not to have heard.
Market12 Jul 2032
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hillerød waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Aalborg is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad12 Jul 2032
18 days out for Jonas Andersen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aalborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Jul 2032
Sam Dalby has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2032
The clubs have shaken hands with Randers; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market12 Jul 2032
Aalborg say no — this time
The offer from Silkeborg for Issa Niaré was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2032
Everything agreed with OB, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad12 Jul 2032
A row about effort at Aalborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and William Clem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Jul 2032
A falling-out at Aalborg
Fawaz Abdullahi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Jul 2032
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aalborg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Jul 2032
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market5 Jul 2032
Only the photograph left for Jesper Daland
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jesper Daland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market5 Jul 2032
B.93 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Aalborg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2032
Aalborg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Union SG, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2032
$480.0K on the table at OB. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad5 Jul 2032
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Aalborg can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad5 Jul 2032
Words exchanged at Aalborg
Luca Kjerrumgaard 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.
Squad5 Jul 2032
A row about effort at Aalborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and William Clem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2032
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market28 Jun 2032
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Aalborg people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad28 Jun 2032
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market28 Jun 2032
Fredrik Nissen has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Jun 2032
A falling-out at Aalborg
Luca Kjerrumgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Jun 2032
A row about effort at Aalborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cody Drameh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2032
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Malmo FF have kept their man, and Aalborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market28 Jun 2032
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Aalborg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout28 Jun 2032
The manager makes an example of Fawaz Abdullahi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Jun 2032
39 days out for Jonas Andersen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Aalborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Jun 2032
Only the photograph left for Joran Gerbet
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joran Gerbet will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2032
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FC Nordsjaelland keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2032
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. OB have kept their man, and Aalborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad21 Jun 2032
A row about effort at Aalborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and William Clem was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2032
Callum McCowatt was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Jun 2032
Aalborg are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Market21 Jun 2032
Aalborg have made Pontus Almqvist available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout21 Jun 2032
Pontus Almqvist asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Jun 2032
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Jun 2032
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Aalborg have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market14 Jun 2032
Sam Dalby has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2032
The clubs have shaken hands with Randers; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market14 Jun 2032
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Jun 2032
Aalborg say no — this time
The offer from OB for Issa Niaré was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2032
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Aalborg have done the hard part with FC Nordsjaelland, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Luca Kjerrumgaard was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2032
William Clem 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.