Marked for Aron Elís Þrándarson
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 23 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad21 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
Valur left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Nikolaj Hansen 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Oliver Ekroth has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Vikingur 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
5.49. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 5.62 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ingvar Jónsson decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
Vikingur march on in the cup
Breidablik are out and Vikingur go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Vikingur say no — this time
The offer from IBV for Ármann Ingi Finnbogason 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.
Squad24 Aug 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 Vikingur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
The Valur deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Jóhannes Kristinn Bjarnason reports back to Vikingur with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elías Már Ómarsson 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aron Elís Þrándarson, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Vikingur say no — this time
The offer from Keflavik for Erlingur Agnarsson 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elías Már Ómarsson and Vikingur agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gylfi Sigurðsson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Vikingur will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elías Már Ómarsson, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Aron Elís Þrándarson’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Erlingur Agnarsson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Vikingur.