The Esbjerg Courier
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lasse Vigen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lasse Vigen commits to Esbjerg for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Esbjerg
Robby McCrorie was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market3 Aug 2026
Julius Lucena attracts admirers
The name of Julius Lucena has come up in conversations Esbjerg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match1 Aug 2026
Honours even between Esbjerg and FC Copenhagen
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Muamer Brajanac knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Muamer Brajanac trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Esbjerg has picked up the phone to Peter Bjur
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
Esbjerg bring in an old head
Thomas Drage is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Gustav Grubbe
Nobody at Esbjerg is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market3 Aug 2026
Muamer Brajanac linked with a move away
The name of Muamer Brajanac keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Esbjerg say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Muamer Brajanac
- Player ratings The referee tires of Anton Skipper
- Player ratings Oskar Boesen runs at them all day