Marked for Samuel Kroon
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marcus Danielson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Trelleborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ammar Asani 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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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
4 matches without a win for Trelleborg
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Trelleborg are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jacob Christiansen and Trelleborg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trelleborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 7.52. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Abbe Rehn
“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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Karl Ekdal: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match7 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Trelleborg?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Umeå FC? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Abel Ogwuche knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Trelleborg, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match2 Nov 2026
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Trelleborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jacob Christiansen commits to Trelleborg for another 4 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Trelleborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ammar Asani 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Trelleborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Abel Ogwuche 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Trelleborg, another week without a signature from Carl Gustafsson.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Trelleborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Filip Gustafsson 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Trelleborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abel Ogwuche was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Trelleborg
17 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Karl Ekdal: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
The leaders are next for Trelleborg
Orebro top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Emil Jaf 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. 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.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Carl Gustafsson pops up at the right end — 7.83
7.83, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match19 Sep 2026
2‑3 to Landskrona BoIS, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Gustav Lillienberg has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Trelleborg have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jacob Christiansen 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Amadeus Sögaard, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Karl Ekdal left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Samuel Kroon beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Viggo Karlsson dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ammar Asani 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 Trelleborg can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Andreas Troelsen 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Malmo FF have kept their man, and Trelleborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Trelleborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abel Ogwuche 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Trelleborg rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. Västerås SK had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Samuel Kroon beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
16 new faces, and Trelleborg are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match29 Aug 2026
It needed Vincent Poppler to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Västerås SK, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andreas Troelsen arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Andreas Troelsen has, at Trelleborg, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with GAIS, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Samuel Kroon beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Carl Gustafsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Linus Ibrahimovic has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karl Lindelof has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robin Berg has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jakob Jansson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.