The Helsingborg Sentinel
Squad18 Jun 2035
Words at Helsingborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Clemens Astrup 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.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Words exchanged at Helsingborg
Oskar Høyer 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.
Match16 Jun 2035
Helsingborg come up short against AIK
AIK left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Helsingborg count the cost of losing Joel Svanberg
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market18 Jun 2035
Still no ink between Helsingborg and William Westerlund
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Helsingborg, another week without a signature from William Westerlund.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Marcus Claesson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcus Claesson and Helsingborg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout18 Jun 2035
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout18 Jun 2035
Francisco Lino gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout18 Jun 2035
When it matters, Isaac Doamo plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Player ratings Marcin Kościelecki beats them one at a time
- The dugout No place in the plan for Isak Granqvist
- Market The shop window has Adam Guidetti in it