Marked for Viktor Jónsson
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
IA bow out of the cup
KR go through and IA go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IA is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at IA
Viktor Jónsson 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
IA asked and Brondby said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
The ambition of Liam Karlsson outgrows IA early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Liam Karlsson is 18, and IA have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Liam Karlsson and IA agree another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 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 Árni Marinó Einarsson is on it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Edon Osmani in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation IA are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
IA march on in the cup
IBV are out and IA go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad17 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.69 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.44, 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at IA until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad17 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 IA this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
IA get their man
The chase for Edon Osmani ended with $66.0K changing hands and Keflavik out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$83.0K was the most the club would pay and IBV 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
$66.0K for Edon Osmani, and IA supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Edon Osmani from Keflavik for $66.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Rúnar Már S. Sigurjónsson scored, was marked 7.27, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fjolnir come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and IA did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Midtjylland is saying, and nobody at IA is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Erik Tobias Sandberg has agreed terms with Valur for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Guðmundur Þórarinsson commits to IA for another 1 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at IA
Viktor Jónsson 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals as IA and FH go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between IA and FH, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match8 Aug 2026
IA come up short against FH
FH left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Guðmundur Þórarinsson, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.60, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad3 Aug 2026
199 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and IA know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fernando Chávez and IA agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at IA
Viktor Jónsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 18 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Viktor Jónsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to IA.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. IA have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
IA are still strangers to each other
10 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
VPS have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.