Marked for Robert Gojani
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Upbeat
Match24 Jul 2028
Hammarby are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 31 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market24 Jul 2028
Linus Jansson 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 Hammarby can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Jul 2028
Victor Lind wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Hammarby hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Warner Hahn 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 Hammarby this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Jul 2028
Still nobody has beaten Hammarby
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Victor Eriksson 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Djurgarden paid $220.0K and Hammarby took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market24 Jul 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Hammarby have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Victor Lind was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.75. 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.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Nahir Besara, 37, rolls back the years — 8.20
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market17 Jul 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hammarby is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Warner Hahn 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.
Market17 Jul 2028
Add another name to the list: Atvidaberg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dennis Collander. The answer from Hammarby has not changed — yet.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Eriksson 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.
Match15 Jul 2028
It finished 2‑0, and it was Nahir Besara’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hammarby.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Paulos Abraham was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.73. 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Obilor Okeke 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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ricardo Friedrich and Hammarby agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market19 Jun 2028
Robert Gojani has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hammarby they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Warner Hahn 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paulos Abraham 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.
Match17 Jun 2028
1‑2 to BK Hacken, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Paulos Abraham was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.05. 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hampus Skoglund, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
5.77. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Steady
Match20 May 2028
The run at home goes on for Hammarby
18 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match20 May 2028
Whatever happens, Hammarby do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market22 May 2028
Only the photograph left for Robert Gojani
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Robert Gojani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hammarby the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 May 2028
Warner Hahn 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.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Eriksson 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.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad22 May 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dennis Collander commits to Hammarby for another 4 years.
Squad22 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Obilor Okeke, and the manager let it.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Match22 Apr 2028
Hammarby make home a hard place to visit
15 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Apr 2028
Robert Gojani has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hammarby they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Warner Hahn 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Eriksson 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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Nahir Besara
“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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ture Björk Ahlbom commits to Hammarby for another 4 years.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Marked 7.73. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match22 Apr 2028
A 1‑1 draw with Djurgarden leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Match27 Mar 2028
Hammarby refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 64 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market27 Mar 2028
Only the photograph left for Robert Gojani
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Robert Gojani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hammarby the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Warner Hahn 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
The phone has started ringing about Dennis Collander again, and this time the name on the line is Gefle. Hammarby are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Hammarby training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paulos Abraham 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.
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Steady
Market28 Feb 2028
“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 AIK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Tempers go at AIK
Ørjan Nyland 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
The name of Victor Andersson has come up in conversations AIK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Robert Gojani has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means AIK have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anton Cajtoft and AIK agree another 1 years.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Joakim Nilsson 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.
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Steady
Match28 Feb 2028
Hammarby are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 64 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market28 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hammarby can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Feb 2028
The chase for Rasmus Wiedesheim-Paul ended with $1.0M changing hands and BK Hacken out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market28 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Robert Gojani
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Robert Gojani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hammarby the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market28 Feb 2028
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Hammarby heard it as anything else.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Marcos Inzaurraga has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Warner Hahn 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Tesfaldet Tekie 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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
When it matters, Warner Hahn 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.
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Triumph
Match11 Sep 2027
A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2‑1, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.
Match13 Sep 2027
Hammarby refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 50 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Hammarby have their man.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Martín Álvarez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Hammarby have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Sep 2027
Hammarby cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Élohim Kaboré and Hammarby agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Samuel Ramos is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Nahir Besara 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.