Ramón Arcas

Central Defender - Retired
13 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ramón Arcas

28 Edition

The Silkeborg Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mats Hummels 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 Silkeborg can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Volendam tell Silkeborg: Aurelio Oehlers is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Silkeborg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Milićević 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.

Squad

Ramón Arcas signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ramón Arcas and Silkeborg agree another 1 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Silkeborg

Marius Jacobsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

No place for Marius Jacobsen in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Silkeborg are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

When it matters, Ivan Milićević plays

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.

The dugout

Oliver Ross 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Melker Jonsson

“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.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Silkeborg Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Alexander Busch 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 Silkeborg can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Silkeborg close the window on a squad of their own making

5 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Words exchanged at Silkeborg

Kevin Andrade 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.

Transfer targets

Silkeborg rebuffed over John Guidetti

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aalborg have kept their man, and Silkeborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

No place for Kevin Andrade in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Silkeborg are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad

Ramón Arcas signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ramón Arcas and Silkeborg agree another 1 years.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Aurelio Oehlers is in the works

Silkeborg have made the call to Volendam. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Silkeborg

5 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 dugout

Andreas Poulsen 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.

In brief

19 Edition

The Silkeborg Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Silkeborg taken apart

1‑4 to FC Midtjylland, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings

Callum McCowatt was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words at Silkeborg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ivan Milićević 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Alexander Busch

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexander Busch, and the manager let it.

Squad

Mats Hummels signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mats Hummels and Silkeborg agree another 1 years.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Silkeborg dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Ramón Arcas wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Silkeborg can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout

Jannik Olsen faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jannik Olsen after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Tempers go at Silkeborg

Christian Risom 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.

In brief