Albin Ekdal

Defensive Midfielder - Helsingborg
19 Aug 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Albin Ekdal

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The Helsingborg Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

William Westerlund has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Helsingborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Lukas Kjellnäs delivers — 7.72

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Lukas Kjellnäs scored, was marked 7.72, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Boardroom

Max Svensson has agreed to leave Helsingborg for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Alexander Johansson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexander Johansson commits to Helsingborg for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Helsingborg

Johan Brattberg 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Max Svensson

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words at Helsingborg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ervin Gigović 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Helsingborg against BK Hacken

1‑2 to BK Hacken, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Johan Brattberg

“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