Jonas Bager

Right Back - IFK Goteborg
2 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jonas Bager

7 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Malmo FF take the derby

0‑3, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.

Squad

93 days out for Ramon Pascal Lundqvist after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. IFK Goteborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom

Arbnor Mucolli signs for AIK while still at IFK Goteborg

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Arbnor Mucolli has agreed terms with AIK for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Match

Malmo FF end the IFK Goteborg run at 8

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

Elis Bishesari 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.

Market

No place for Jonas Bager in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jonas Bager has his answer from IFK Goteborg; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

A falling-out at IFK Goteborg

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

Market

IFK Goteborg and Tobias Heintz are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Boardroom

Doors closed at IFK Goteborg

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Ramon Pascal Lundqvist breaks a bone — 101 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Kolbeinn Þórðarson hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what IFK Goteborg can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Not going: Arbnor Mucolli stays at IFK Goteborg

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dordrecht had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Squad

Words at IFK Goteborg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Walta 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

The manager makes an example of Leo Walta

“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.

Looking ahead

Derby week at IFK Goteborg

Malmo FF next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.

Squad

A month that belonged to Elis Bishesari

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at IFK Goteborg who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Market

Still no ink between IFK Goteborg and Max Fenger

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at IFK Goteborg, another week without a signature from Max Fenger.

Squad

Sam Larsson is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Sam Larsson has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief