Marcus Ibrahimovic

Striker - Sandviken
24 Mar 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for Marcus Ibrahimovic

345 Edition

The Sandviken Herald

7 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Sandviken can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Kimmen Nennesson puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Sandviken, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Emergency meeting at Sandviken

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Transfer targets

Melwin Eker due for a Sandviken medical

Everything agreed with Hammarby, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Emil Larsson turns down Sandviken

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Malmo FF keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Boardroom

$282.0K from the owner keeps Sandviken afloat

The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Adam Kiani

Sandviken asked and GIF Sundsvall said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A falling-out at Sandviken

Adrián Kopičár and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Johan Arvidsson is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

Back issues
344 Edition

The Sandviken Herald

28 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Erik Isak damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.

Transfer targets

Kacper Gutowski due for a Sandviken medical

Everything agreed with BK Hacken, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Sandviken rebuffed over Jakob Jäger Röding

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Degerfors have kept their man, and Sandviken go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Tempers go at Sandviken

Ollie Dewsbury 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.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Sandviken

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Transfer targets

Sandviken try to borrow Adam Kiani

GIF Sundsvall have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Words at Sandviken training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Promes is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

No hiding place for Miguel Oliveira

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miguel Oliveira, and the manager let it.

Market

The Anomnachi Chidi story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Anomnachi Chidi signs something — a contract at Sandviken or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief