Marked for Wessel Dammers
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 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 Randers can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Randers people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market11 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Randers have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Simon Wæver
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Randers have done the hard part with SonderjyskE, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Randers
Paul Izzo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market11 Jan 2027
FC Copenhagen are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Randers will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad11 Jan 2027
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Benjamin Örn 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Gustav Nørøxe damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Mike Themsen, 20, steals the show — 7.65
Marked 7.65 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Paul Izzo 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
John Björkengren was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.17. 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matthew Hoppe, and the manager let it.
Match28 Nov 2026
Randers caught on 88 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Viborg scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match28 Nov 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Viborg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 3‑3 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Cruel end for OB as Randers pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Randers scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Amady Camara: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Randers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Randers
Matthew Hoppe 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 terraces26 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Amady Camara has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match24 Oct 2026
Randers get the job done against OB
A 1‑0 win over OB, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matthew Hoppe, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kasper Pedersen 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Looking ahead
A test against the best for Randers
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Squad
A ban for Wessel Dammers
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Randers
Paul Izzo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
22 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elies Mahmoud, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over FC Midtjylland, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.12 — 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Randers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasper Pedersen 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Randers are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.” Pierre-Emile Poulsen kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Market14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lee Jenkins arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lee Jenkins has, at Randers, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Randers
Elies Mahmoud and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ousseynou Seck commits to Randers for another 5 years.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Randers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Warren Caddy 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Hjalte Boe
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Viborg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pierre-Emile Poulsen after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Mathias Rosenørn 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match19 Aug 2026
Randers out of the cup
Esbjerg ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Randers asked and Free State Stars said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Randers have gone to SonderjyskE with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Randers's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Randers has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$830.0K was the most the club would pay and AGF were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Randers
Paul Izzo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: FC Nordsjaelland have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ousseynou Seck. The answer from Randers has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No deal for Luka Jović at that price
Randers offered $4.0M; AEK said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Randers have gone to Brondby with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Mathias Jensen enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: KV Oostende keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Viborg have kept their man, and Randers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Wessel Dammers and Randers agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Paul Izzo in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Randers
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Nikolai Hopland gets it from the manager