David Kruse

Defensive Midfielder - IFK Goteborg
27 Sep 2026
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Marked for David Kruse

7 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Sep 2026

Malmo FF take the derby

1‑3, 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

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.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Robin Lustig to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Sam Larsson dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Ramon Pascal Lundqvist asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Canadá leaves them behind him

Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Market14 Sep 2026

The David Kruse question follows IFK Goteborg around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with David Kruse’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Max Fenger wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and IFK Goteborg have no good answer.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Gabriel Ersoy left out for tactical reasons at IFK Goteborg

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The IFK Goteborg Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Aug 2026

IFK Goteborg turn down Oddevold for Elis Bishesari

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Elis Bishesari has agreed to leave IFK Goteborg for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad10 Aug 2026

David Kruse signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Kruse commits to IFK Goteborg for another 4 years.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

David Kruse ran the middle of the pitch — 6.60

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 14 combined actions and a mark of 6.60, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Vladislav Torop

IFK Goteborg asked and CSKA Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Kolbeinn Þórðarson 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Talks stall between IFK Goteborg and Tobias Heintz

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Arbnor Mucolli

7.14, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. IFK Goteborg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Max Fenger 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 Max Fenger trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief