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Crisis
Squad27 Jan 2031
46 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad27 Jan 2031
The manager makes an example of Isak Edman
“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.
Squad27 Jan 2031
The manager comes out for Paulo Brito
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Paulo Brito has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Crisis
Boardroom28 Oct 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Gefle
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match26 Oct 2030
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Oct 2030
The manager makes an example of Albin Linnér
“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.
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Crisis
Squad4 Mar 2030
84 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad4 Mar 2030
“The easiest signature of my career.” Albin Linnér and Gefle agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Mar 2030
The manager makes an example of Miguel Ramírez
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Aug 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Albin Linnér commits to Gefle for another 2 years.
Squad13 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Anton Cajtoft
“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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
5 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Uneasy
Match28 Jul 2029
9 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Market30 Jul 2029
Max Croon 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Anton Cajtoft : 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.” Gefle have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Max Croon Max Croon hands in a written request
Squad30 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Max Croon lets one through his handsA defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match28 Jul 2029
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The terraces30 Jul 2029
The spotlight tightens on Paulo Brito
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Albin Linnér asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market30 Jul 2029
No fee and no drama: Santino González has signed at Gefle , and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Crisis
Match21 Jul 2029
8 matches without a win for Gefle
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Gefle are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Jul 2029
The manager makes an example of Paulo Brito
“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.
Match21 Jul 2029
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Paulo Brito The manager makes an example of Paulo Brito
Market23 Jul 2029
Max Croon linked with a move awayThe name of Max Croon keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Gefle say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Carlos Jacinto 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 Gefle , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad23 Jul 2029
The shirt belongs to Albin Linnér now
At 30 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Gefle have a decision that made itself.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Anderson Mauro and Gefle agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match23 Jun 2029
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.