Marked for Wessel Dammers
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Randers
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Randers are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
177% of the income goes out in wages at Randers
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frederik Lauenborg, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Voices raised on the Randers training ground
Two players, one bad tackle and a session that had to be stopped. It was over in a minute; it was outside the gates in an hour.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Aalborg came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market5 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Wessel Dammers’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jannich Storch 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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Randers
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Randers are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Aalborg deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Mert Demirci reports back to Randers with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market7 Sep 2026
Max Albæk has left for SonderjyskE in a $270.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
141% of the income goes out in wages at Randers
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cyril Edudzi commits to Randers for another 4 years.
Match5 Sep 2026
Honours even between Randers and Hobro
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Randers lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“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 Randers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wessel Dammers and Randers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Randers against OB
1‑2 to OB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thibault Klidjé, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Randers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Randers say no — this time
The offer from Sandefjord for Amin Al-Hamawi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paul Izzo commits to Randers for another 3 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Esbjerg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Sjølstad. The answer from Randers has not changed — yet.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Randers, 2‑1 the final word against SonderjyskE in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Paul Izzo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Izzo, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months and counting on Paul Izzo
Still no offer on the table, and Paul Izzo’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Wessel Dammers 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mert Demirci is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Randers has been clear about where Mert Demirci stands, which is more than many ever get.