Eric Larsson

Right Back - Gefle
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Eric Larsson

10 Edition

The Gefle Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Jacinto

86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gefle lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Yukiya Sugita runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Noah Lundström 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 Gefle can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Malïk Mokédé at 21 — 8.30

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Malïk Mokédé did not need any: 8.30, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Only the photograph left for Theodor Hansemon

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Theodor Hansemon will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gefle the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Eric Larsson signs on for more

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

Squad

Tempers go at Gefle

Christos Gravius 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.

Match

Gefle find a way past Falkenberg

Falkenberg made Gefle work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Noah Lundström 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.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Gefle Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Carlos Jacinto damages knee ligaments — 101 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

No end in sight to Gefle's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gefle has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Gefle

Eric Larsson 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.

Boardroom

Gefle agree a free transfer for Wessam Dukhan

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad

Words at Gefle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mamadou Kouyaté 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

No hiding place for Deniz Yaldir

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Gefle Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Eric Larsson has been here 8 seasons

369 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Eric Larsson signs on for more

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

Squad

Tempers go at Gefle

Eric Larsson 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.

Squad

Words at Gefle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alem Nezirević 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.

Market

Gefle and Joachim Imbrechts are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings

Noah Lundström takes the honours

Marked 7.91 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Gefle had the best player on the pitch.

Market

24 months and counting on Yukiya Sugita

Still no offer on the table, and Yukiya Sugita’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Match

Yukiya Sugita rescues a point for Gefle

It needed Yukiya Sugita to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Halmstad, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Market

Dillan Ismail is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Gefle has been clear about where Dillan Ismail stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief