Ísak Jóhannesson

Defensive Midfielder - Köln
22 Sep 2026
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Marked for Ísak Jóhannesson

7 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Linton Maina runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market14 Sep 2026

Köln say no — this time

The offer from Mainz 05 for Linton Maina 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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Sargis Adamyan asks to leave Köln

“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.

Market14 Sep 2026

Jarrod Bowen raises the bar for Köln

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Köln heard it as anything else.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

Door shut on Yann Aurel Bisseck

Köln asked and Inter said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match12 Sep 2026

Köln see off St. Pauli

Three points for Köln, 1‑0 the final word against St. Pauli in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Luca Waldschmidt makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

A defender's afternoon for Ellyes Skhiri

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Thijs Dallinga was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.20. 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.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ísak Jóhannesson ran the middle of the pitch — 6.94
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Mikey Moore falls out with a teammate over standards
Back issues
6 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Marvin Schwäbe asks to leave Köln

“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.

Market7 Sep 2026

The RB Leipzig deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Saïd El Mala reports back to Köln with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market7 Sep 2026

VfB Stuttgart come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Köln did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market7 Sep 2026

Luca Kilian says no to Eintracht Frankfurt

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Luca Kilian had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Fin Stevens

Köln asked and St. Pauli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 18 in, 1 out at Köln

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Saïd El Mala 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 Köln this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Linton Maina

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match5 Sep 2026

Köln caught on 90 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Werder Bremen scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

In brief

  • Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Thijs Dallinga
  • Squad 9 new faces, and Köln are still learning each other
  • Squad Gideon Mensah slips down the pecking order