Marked for Robert Taylor
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match4 Nov 2028
IF Elfsborg will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Malmo FF were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match6 Nov 2028
The season ends: position 3 for Malmo FF
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 55 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Player ratings6 Nov 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.65, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match6 Nov 2028
Malmo FF are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 55 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Malmo FF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings6 Nov 2028
Age has not caught Robert Taylor yet — 7.94
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Sead Hakšabanović
19 goals and a season average of 7.26 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Match4 Nov 2028
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
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Steady
Match24 Jun 2028
Still nobody has beaten Malmo FF
The unbeaten run reaches 15. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match21 Jun 2028
The small margins put Malmo FF out
Out, 1‑1 to Brommapojkarna, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad26 Jun 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mayckel Lahdo and Malmo FF agree another 5 years.
Squad26 Jun 2028
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Jens Stryger Larsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Jun 2028
Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings26 Jun 2028
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Player ratings26 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
“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.
The dugout26 Jun 2028
A promise honoured at Malmo FF
Something was said to Robert Taylor and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Upbeat
Squad1 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Apr 2028
Malmo FF keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match29 Apr 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Salifou Soumah. 1‑0 against Västerås SK, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings1 May 2028
A performance of 8.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout1 May 2028
“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.
Market1 May 2028
“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.
Squad1 May 2028
Robin Olsen is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Robin Olsen 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.
The dugout1 May 2028
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Anton Olsen, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout1 May 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pontus Jansson is on it.
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Triumph
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.54 for the rest of it.
Market17 Apr 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Malmo FF they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market17 Apr 2028
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match15 Apr 2028
Malmo FF make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 3 straight wins of it.
Match15 Apr 2028
Three points for Malmo FF, 3‑1 the final word against BK Hacken in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces17 Apr 2028
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
“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.
Loan watch17 Apr 2028
“I watch every Malmo FF game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kalmar FF runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Stian Rode Gregersen's mistake
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The dugout
A promise honoured at Malmo FF
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Upbeat
Market20 Mar 2028
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” IFK Norrkoping had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market20 Mar 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Malmo FF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market20 Mar 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Malmo FF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Market20 Mar 2028
Degerfors paid $220.0K and Malmo FF took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad20 Mar 2028
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Malmo FF would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Malmo FF that is a harder question to answer.
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Upbeat
Squad3 Jan 2028
A fracture rules Folke Karlsson out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Malmo FF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad3 Jan 2028
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Malmo FF have had the benefit of it.
Market3 Jan 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Noah Åstrand John will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Malmo FF the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Jan 2028
26 games and 0 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Salifou Soumah
“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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Robert Taylor 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.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sead Hakšabanović is on it.
Market3 Jan 2028
“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.
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Upbeat
Match30 Oct 2027
4‑0, and Sead Hakšabanović took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Malmo FF tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.27 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Robert Taylor, 33, rolls back the years — 7.87
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Otto Rosengren pops up at the right end — 7.74
7.74, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes of Yanis Karabelyov at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Malmo FF.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“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.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 4‑0, Anton Olsen could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Match16 Oct 2027
IFK Värnamo will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Malmo FF were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match18 Oct 2027
Malmo FF are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 56 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Robert Taylor, 33, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Sead Hakšabanović
19 goals and a season average of 7.24 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Jens Stryger Larsen 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Warren Kamanzi 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.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Ninety minutes of Mayckel Lahdo at his very best
Marked 8.42. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Malmo FF.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“I watch every Malmo FF game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Esbjerg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Anton Olsen, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Upbeat
Match16 Sep 2027
Malmo FF do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Malmo FF came through the finding-out well against WSG Tirol.
Match20 Sep 2027
Malmo FF refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 51 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.95 for the rest of it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Otto Rosengren and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2027
A 2‑1 win over IF Elfsborg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Robert Taylor did the work nobody counts — 6.89
9 combined actions and 6.89. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
“I watch every Malmo FF game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Esbjerg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
Johan Dahlin left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Johan Dahlin will call it something else in private.
In brief
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The dugout
Marcus Rafferty gets it from the manager
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Mayckel Lahdo has become a man the manager trusts
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Triumph
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.83, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market13 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Malmo FF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A season average of 7.23 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad13 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match11 Sep 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Sead Hakšabanović. 2‑1 against AIK, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Warren Kamanzi 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.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“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.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Anton Olsen on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Match5 Jun 2027
3‑0, and Diego García took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Malmo FF tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The match ball belongs to Diego García, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match5 Jun 2027
Whatever happens, Malmo FF do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Malmo FF are at home on the road
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Diego García was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.50. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match5 Jun 2027
Halmstad blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Halmstad tried to reorganise, Malmo FF did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
$16.3M on the table at Malmo FF
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
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Triumph
Match15 May 2027
4‑1, and Robert Taylor took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Malmo FF tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.95 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout17 May 2027
“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.
Market17 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Malmo FF is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match15 May 2027
Whatever happens, Malmo FF do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match15 May 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Malmo FF. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Gabriel Busanello was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout17 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Anton Olsen kept it short after the 4‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Market19 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Malmo FF can pretend not to have heard.
Market19 Apr 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Malmo FF they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Diego García’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Malmo FF.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Warren Kamanzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Malte Frejd Pålsson and Malmo FF agree another 5 years.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Mayckel Lahdo
7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Malmo FF had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I did not go to IK Brage to sit and watch. I want to come back to Malmo FF and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Pontus Jansson gets picked when it counts
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Market
The Robert Taylor talk will not go away
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Steady
Market22 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market22 Mar 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Malmo FF have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market22 Mar 2027
Brommapojkarna paid $210.0K and Malmo FF took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Warren Kamanzi 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arnór Sigurðsson, and the manager let it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Höög and Malmo FF agree another 5 years.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Noah Åstrand John 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.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Malmo FF, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Sead Hakšabanović has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Transfer targets15 Mar 2027
Malmo FF had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Bari, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Pontus Jansson 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.
Market15 Mar 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Malmo FF have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Robert Taylor gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Robert Taylor is on it.
Market15 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mayckel Lahdo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Malmo FF would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Yanis Karabelyov has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Malmo FF that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Malmo FF. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Market8 Mar 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Malmo FF people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The offer went to Bari this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pontus Jansson and Malmo FF agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
AIK pay $580.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Warren Kamanzi 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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Robin Olsen 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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Pontus Jansson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market8 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Robert Taylor signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market22 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Malmo FF can pretend not to have heard.
Market22 Feb 2027
Trelleborg pay $1.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad22 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Malmo FF asked and FC Fredericia 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 dugout22 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market22 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Otto Rosengren’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
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 dugout22 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.
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Steady
Market15 Feb 2027
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market15 Feb 2027
Kalmar FF pay $1.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Djurgarden wanted more than $660.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Jens Stryger Larsen 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Warren Kamanzi 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Market8 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Malmo FF people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. IK Sirius have kept their man, and Malmo FF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Malmo FF say no — this time
The offer from IK Sirius for Noah Åstrand John 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$660.0K on the table at Djurgarden. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $740.2K — a club that wants Filip Manojlović enough to be asked twice.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Warren Kamanzi 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Adam Wikman 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Pontus Jansson has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch8 Feb 2027
16 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Market1 Feb 2027
Lierse come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market1 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Yanis Karabelyov has his answer from Malmo FF; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market1 Feb 2027
The name of Sead Hakšabanović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Malmo FF say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Malmo FF would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Oscar Johansson Schellhas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
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.
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Market18 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Malmo FF can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pontus Jansson 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Malmo FF have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Warren Kamanzi 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Robert Taylor has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
13 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mayckel Lahdo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Malmo FF. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Robin Olsen knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Malmo FF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
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The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Mamadou Diagne
“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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pontus Jansson is on it.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Malmo FF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market11 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Robert Taylor signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Squad4 Jan 2027
Wille Jakobsson gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Wille Jakobsson has just signed for Malmo FF, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Warren Kamanzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Malmo FF know it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sead Hakšabanović trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Sead Hakšabanović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Malmo FF say nothing, which says plenty.
Market4 Jan 2027
No fee and no drama: Wille Jakobsson has signed at Malmo FF, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daníel Guðjohnsen is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Jens Stryger Larsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Warren Kamanzi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market28 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Otto Rosengren’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
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Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Adam Wikman 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Robert Taylor has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Stian Rode Gregersen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Match10 Dec 2026
A European night to remember for Malmo FF
0‑0 against Benfica, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Match10 Dec 2026
The run at home goes on for Malmo FF
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match10 Dec 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Malmo FF did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Warren Kamanzi 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Stian Rode Gregersen will call it something else in private.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A mark of 7.44, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Pontus Jansson is on it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Anton Olsen was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Malmo FF dressing room was either.