Marked for Simon Bækgaard
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kasper Lunding damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Jashar Beluli 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 Aarhus Fremad can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Aarhus Fremad's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Aarhus Fremad has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Aarhus Fremad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jashar Beluli 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 113% of everything Aarhus Fremad earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simon Bækgaard, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aarhus Fremad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kasper Lunding damages knee ligaments — 77 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 77 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Linus Thieler is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Aarhus Fremad are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kasper Lunding 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Esbjerg in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Magnus Kaastrup signs something — a contract at Aarhus Fremad or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aarhus Fremad, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 17 signed and 10 gone
That is the business done at Aarhus Fremad until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with Nasarawa United, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luka Callø 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 targets7 Sep 2026
Aarhus Fremad asked and Brondby said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aarhus Fremad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A loan move for Mansour Samb is in the works
Aarhus Fremad have made the call to AC Horsens. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luka Callø named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Luka Callø is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Aarhus Fremad, and both men came out saying it was fine.