Marked for Daniel Lindstrom
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market9 Jul 2046
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Aalborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Jul 2046
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aalborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Jul 2046
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Lindstrom and Aalborg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Squad14 Aug 2045
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Aug 2045
4 matches without a win for Aalborg
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Aalborg are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Aug 2045
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Lindstrom is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Aug 2045
Henrik Christensen 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.
Squad14 Aug 2045
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aalborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Aug 2045
FC Copenhagen left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings14 Aug 2045
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Aug 2045
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Aug 2045
The name of Andreas Braithwaite keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Aalborg say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad17 Jul 2045
A knee injury of the worst kind for Christian Eriksen
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad17 Jul 2045
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Lindstrom is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad17 Jul 2045
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aalborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Upbeat
Squad27 Feb 2045
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ismaël Sidibé
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match20 Feb 2045
2‑0 against Khazar, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Daniel Dolberg was at the centre of the description.
Squad27 Feb 2045
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad27 Feb 2045
“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.
Match20 Feb 2045
Still nobody has beaten Aalborg
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad27 Feb 2045
Words at Aalborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henrik Christensen 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.
Player ratings27 Feb 2045
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings27 Feb 2045
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Aalborg.
Player ratings27 Feb 2045
18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.