Sead Hakšabanović

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Malmo FF
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Sead Hakšabanović

25 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Malmo FF refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 28 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.

Squad

Sead Hakšabanović: 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.” Malmo FF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Erik Botheim 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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

Juan Martín Rojas 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

22 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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

Pontus Jansson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

21 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Malmo FF are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 28 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Arnór Sigurðsson: 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.” Malmo FF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Sead Hakšabanović 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

20 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A statement in Europe from Malmo FF

4‑0 against Merani, and a performance that will change how the rest of the competition talks about this club. Reputations in continental football are built in single evenings and this was one.

Squad

A day Diego García will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings

Diego García was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.70. 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Colin Rösler

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Pontus Jansson

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.

Squad

Juan Martín Rojas 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 Malmo FF Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Erik Botheim: 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.” Malmo FF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Sead Hakšabanović 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Juan Martín Rojas 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

18 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Malmo FF do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Malmo FF came through the finding-out well against Cambuur.

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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

Malmo FF cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Player ratings

Arnór Sigurðsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Otto Rosengren

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.

In brief

16 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Silverware for Malmo FF

They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.

Squad

Anders Christiansen breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

The season belongs to Pontus Jansson

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Malmo FF have had the benefit of it.

In brief

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15 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Anders Christiansen breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Malmo FF come up short in Europe

0‑2 away to the standard of Krasnodar. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Pontus Jansson 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

14 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Anders Christiansen breaks a bone — 42 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 42 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

No hiding place for Sead Hakšabanović

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

Squad

A month that belonged to Daníel Guðjohnsen

The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at Malmo FF who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

In brief

13 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Anders Christiansen breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Malmo FF refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 28 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.

Match

Malmo FF come up short in Europe

0‑2 away to the standard of Krasnodar. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Player ratings

Pontus Jansson, 35, rolls back the years — 8.23

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.23 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Sead Hakšabanović 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Robin Olsen

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Oscar Sjöstrand

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Pontus Jansson the difference as Malmo FF beat GIF Sundsvall

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pontus Jansson. 1‑0 against GIF Sundsvall, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

No place for Sead Hakšabanović on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Malmo FF pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

12 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Anders Christiansen breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

7 unbeaten for Malmo FF

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Malmo FF did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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

Juan Martín Rojas 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A promise honoured for Diego García

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Malmo FF told Diego García something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Erik Botheim

7.73, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Malmo FF had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

11 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Anders Christiansen out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Malmo FF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Malmo FF make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 4 straight wins of it.

Squad

Kylian Seka says Malmo FF went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Pontus Jansson 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

Nobody wins at Malmo FF

10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Juan Martín Rojas wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Malmo FF know it.

Player ratings

Sead Hakšabanović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Diego García sends Malmo FF past Helsingborg

It finished 1‑0, and it was Diego García’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Malmo FF.

Player ratings

Pontus Jansson shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

10 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The derby belongs to Malmo FF

2‑1 against IFK Goteborg, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.

Match

Malmo FF do the business in Europe

1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Malmo FF came through the finding-out well against Merani.

Match

Malmo FF leave it late against IFK Goteborg

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and IFK Goteborg spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Otto Rosengren

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Malmo FF have their man.

Match

Malmo FF make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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 terraces

Malmo FF supporters have found a favourite in Otto Rosengren

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Otto Rosengren has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Arnór Sigurðsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

9 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Malmo FF up to position 2

18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Pontus Jansson 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

Sead Hakšabanović 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.

Match

Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit

9 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.

Match

Malmo FF get the job done against Kalmar FF

A 1‑0 win over Kalmar FF, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Colin Rösler was immovable

19 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Pontus Jansson stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.75 on the card, and the Malmo FF support went home talking about one name.

Loan watch

Elliott Andersson wants to come home

“I did not go to Kalmar FF to sit and watch. I want to come back to Malmo FF and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.

Player ratings

Sead Hakšabanović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

8 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A European night to remember for Malmo FF

1‑1 against Cambuur, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Pontus Jansson yet — 8.03

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.03 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Arnór Sigurðsson

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

Squad

No hiding place for Diego García

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

Match

Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit

8 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.

Squad

Colin Rösler 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.

Squad

No place for Sead Hakšabanović on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Malmo FF pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Match

Malmo FF draw a blank against Atvidaberg

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Atvidaberg defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

7 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Sead Hakšabanović 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.

Player ratings

Sead Hakšabanović runs at them all day

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Malmo FF against BK Hacken

0‑1 to BK Hacken, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Viggo Jeppsson 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

Andrej Đurić 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.

Squad

When it matters, Anders Christiansen 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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Robin Olsen decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

The cup run ends for Malmo FF

1‑1 against Halmstad, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match

9 unbeaten for Malmo FF

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Malmo FF did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Jens Stryger Larsen for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Malmo FF will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Kylian Seka

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Malmo FF find a way past Falkenberg

Falkenberg made Malmo FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Emmanuel Ekong

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Pontus Jansson shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

5 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Malmo FF make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 3 straight wins of it.

Boardroom

Oscar Johansson Schellhas will join Malmo FF for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Oscar Johansson Schellhas has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Malmo FF have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Juan Martín Rojas 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Adrian Skogmar

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Arnór Sigurðsson sends Malmo FF past Gefle

It finished 2‑0, and it was Arnór Sigurðsson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Malmo FF.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Colin Rösler 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 ratings

A masterclass from Colin Rösler

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 ratings

Sead Hakšabanović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Gabriel Busanello

Defensive actions: 14. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cup progress for Malmo FF

A 3‑2 win over Falkenberg, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match

Stefano Vecchia breaks Falkenberg hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Stefano Vecchia scored in the 86th minute, Falkenberg had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Malmo FF took the lot.

Player ratings

Pontus Jansson, 35, rolls back the years — 8.30

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.30 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Viggo Jeppsson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Malmo FF

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.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Viggo Jeppsson

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Sead Hakšabanović 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

3 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Malmo FF through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Gefle, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Malmo FF win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 121th minute. Gefle will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Malmo FF turn down Nagoya Grampus for Diego García

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Malmo FF

Pontus Jansson 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

Sead Hakšabanović 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.

Boardroom

Lars Sætra will join Malmo FF for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Lars Sætra has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Malmo FF have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Player ratings

Erik Botheim runs at them all day

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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Yanis Karabelyov

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

No hiding place for Andrej Đurić

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Malmo FF Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

No mercy from Malmo FF

AIK will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Malmo FF were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Diego García scores twice — 8.56

Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Anders Christiansen has been here 10 seasons

350 appearances across 10 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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Colin Rösler delivers — 7.93

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Colin Rösler scored, was marked 7.93, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Pontus Jansson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pontus Jansson and Malmo FF agree another 2 years.

Squad

Pontus Jansson 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 Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sead Hakšabanović 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 ratings

A defender's afternoon for Otto Rosengren

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

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Oscar Sjöstrand runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

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