The AC Horsens Sentinel
The dugout23 Jul 2035
Mikkel Ceïde says AC Horsens went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market23 Jul 2035
Francho Serrano has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AC Horsens they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Francho Serrano in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AC Horsens this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Jul 2035
5 academy graduates step up at AC Horsens
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Mikkel Ceïde 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.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2035
Door shut on Victor Lindstrom
AC Horsens asked and FC Midtjylland said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market23 Jul 2035
AC Horsens promote Peter Olsen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Peter Olsen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market23 Jul 2035
One of our own: Henrik Norgaard joins the AC Horsens first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henrik Norgaard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Jul 2035
Lukas Jensen steps up from the AC Horsens academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lukas Jensen 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Musiliu Odekunle
- Match AC Horsens come up short against FC Nordsjaelland
- Squad Georgi Nikolov signs a new deal