Marked for Aron Elís Þrándarson
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson 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 dugout30 Nov 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 Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen is on it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Sigurjón Mogensen 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Vikingur. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market30 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Vikingur know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Vikingur
Gunnar Vatnhamar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Björgvin Brimi Andrésson and Vikingur agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout2 Nov 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 Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen is on it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Oliver Ekroth 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Óskar Borgþórsson, and the manager let it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Viktor Örlygur Andrason has written the date down.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Gylfi Sigurðsson 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Viktor Steinn Sverrisson is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Vikingur
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Elías Már Ómarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Valur left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ingvar Jónsson
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sigurdur Palsson after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Vikingur needed to.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Gunnar Vatnhamar is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against KR in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market21 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Vikingur, another week without a signature from Teo Herceg.
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Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Vikingur
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gunnar Vatnhamar 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Vikingur
Aron Elís Þrándarson 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Fjolnir to sit and watch. I want to come back to Vikingur and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Sveinn Aron Guðjohnsen to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Fylkir, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Sep 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 Valdimar Þór Ingimundarson is on it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sigurdur Palsson chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Vikingur lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
The dugout14 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Vikingur march on in the cup
Breidablik are out and Vikingur go through, 4‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market24 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 Vikingur, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The deal that would have taken Haraldur Ágúst Brynjarsson to Keflavik has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Vikingur with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BK Hacken have kept their man, and Vikingur go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Vikingur training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gunnar Vatnhamar 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Vikingur.