Marked for Warren Caddy
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match7 Dec 2026
Randers are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 32 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad7 Dec 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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
2‑4 to FC Midtjylland, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every Randers game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at OB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikolas Dyhr, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Paul Izzo lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
A mark of 5.44 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
81 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Nov 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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match28 Nov 2026
Three points for Randers, 2‑1 the final word against Viborg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Paul Izzo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Izzo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The team sheet said everything about Warren Caddy
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Warren Caddy.
Match28 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 9.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Høegh, and the manager let it.
Match21 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Elies Mahmoud. 1‑0 against Hobro, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad23 Nov 2026
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ernesto Reyes will call it something else in private.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Randers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sabil Hansen and Randers agree another 5 years.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Noah Shamoun 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Randers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A mark of 5.45 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mathias Greve 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 9.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over SonderjyskE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.24 — 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
67 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Lissens, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ikson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ikson commits to Randers for another 3 years.
In brief
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Market
Randers shop where it costs nothing
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Market
Randers shop where it costs nothing
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The terraces
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Crisis
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
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.
Match12 Oct 2026
Randers refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 18 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Randers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Wessel Dammers 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Randers, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Greve, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Randers against AGF
0‑1 to AGF, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Mathias Greve keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Randers say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Shots: 6, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Steady
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
145 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Match3 Oct 2026
A 3‑1 win over Aalborg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.84 — 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Paul Izzo 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 32. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match14 Sep 2026
Randers are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 11 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Daniel Høegh
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Noah Shamoun. 1‑0 against Viborg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucas Lissens, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Oliver Jones hands in a written request
“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.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Randers
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Frederik Lauenborg 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Høegh
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Randers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 4.99 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Randers out
Out, 0‑1 to Esbjerg, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mert Demirci hands in a written request
“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.
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.
Player ratings24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Musa Touré has left for Viborg in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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 Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ousseynou Seck has left for Brondby in a $570.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Noah Shamoun 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.
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Steady
Market10 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 Randers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wessel Dammers and Randers agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Greve, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Randers, another week without a signature from Mathias Greve.
Match8 Aug 2026
Randers and OB take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Stjarnan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Randers did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paul Izzo commits to Randers for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Esbjerg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Sjølstad. The answer from Randers has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.83 — 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
SonderjyskE made Randers work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.