Marked for Daniel Gadegaard
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Esbjerg
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Esbjerg are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a goal for Esbjerg
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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 Esbjerg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
André Rømer 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
FC Midtjylland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Joaquín Petino
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
Esbjerg say no — this time
The offer from Hobro for Daniel Gadegaard was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Muamer Brajanac commits to Esbjerg for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Costa 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Esbjerg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. André Rømer 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Brondby left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The Julius Lucena conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Hobro will make the call about Julius Lucena this week. Esbjerg have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Esbjerg
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.