Marked for Oskar Fallenius
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Upbeat
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Tammy Abraham
19 goals and a season average of 7.45 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stian Rode Gregersen 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.
Match9 Oct 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Tammy Abraham’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Malmo FF.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Anders Christiansen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Oct 2027
International break empties Malmo FF
6 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
95% of the income goes out in wages at Malmo FF
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Holmén, and the manager let it.
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Triumph
Match3 Jul 2027
Malmo FF cannot stop winning
8 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Linus Larsen out for 98 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
365 appearances across 11 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.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Malmo FF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market5 Jul 2027
Tarik Karic has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Malmo FF they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Paulos Abraham
13 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Stian Rode Gregersen 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.
Match3 Jul 2027
A 1‑0 win over Halmstad, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Oskar Fallenius was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.34. 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.
In brief
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The dugout
Anders Christiansen gets it from the manager
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Boardroom
Intake day at the Malmo FF academy
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Triumph
Squad28 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Linus Larsen out for 107 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Malmo FF make it 7 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 7 straight wins of it.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A brace, and Diego García takes the afternoon — 8.96
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego García provided it, and the 8.96 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market28 Jun 2027
“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 Malmo FF, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match28 Jun 2027
31 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Malmo FF keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stian Rode Gregersen 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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Triumph
Match19 Jun 2027
Derby days make names, and Oskar Fallenius made his against IFK Goteborg. 2‑1, bragging rights secured, and one half of town will be tired of hearing about him by Tuesday.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Linus Larsen breaks a bone — 116 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match19 Jun 2027
Malmo FF make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 6 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Malmo FF support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
Market21 Jun 2027
Bleon Kurtuluş has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Malmo FF they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stian Rode Gregersen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Jun 2027
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 ratings21 Jun 2027
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.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Malmo FF, and 2 appearances in 20 say he has earned the hearing.
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Triumph
Squad14 Jun 2027
Linus Larsen breaks a bone — 124 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 124 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
A brace, and Emmanuel Ekong takes the afternoon — 9.01
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Emmanuel Ekong provided it, and the 9.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match12 Jun 2027
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Emmanuel Ekong decided nobody was going anywhere. Kalmar FF had no time left to answer.
Match12 Jun 2027
Malmo FF cannot stop winning
5 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stian Rode Gregersen 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Anders 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.
Match12 Jun 2027
Kalmar FF made Malmo FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Otto Rosengren and Malmo FF agree another 5 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Taylor 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Otto Rosengren
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
$6.2M on the table at Malmo FF
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
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Triumph
Match10 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Malmo FF did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Sead Hakšabanović takes the afternoon — 9.12
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sead Hakšabanović provided it, and the 9.12 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match10 Oct 2026
Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit
11 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Malmo FF are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Sead Hakšabanović
14 goals and a season average of 7.35 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Oct 2026
Malmo FF keep winning on the road
4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Match10 Oct 2026
Helsingborg made Malmo FF work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
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The dugout
No hiding place for Andrej Đurić
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
Malmo FF cannot stop winning
11 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
1‑0 against Legia, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Oskar Fallenius was at the centre of the description.
Match19 Sep 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.71, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Robert Taylor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes 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 Diego Enríquez, and the manager let it.
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stian Rode Gregersen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.00 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” IFK Mariehamn had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Daníel Guðjohnsen, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02
A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match22 Aug 2026
Malmo FF cannot stop winning
5 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kalipha Jawla, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.26
A mark of 8.26 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Djurgarden until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$1.2M on the table at Hammarby. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Falkenberg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Djurgarden did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kristian Strømland Lien 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 Aug 2026
Malmo FF paid $660.0K and Djurgarden took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Djurgarden offered $310.0K; Hammarby said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Malmo FF march on in the cup
Gefle are out and Malmo FF go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” IFK Mariehamn had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PAOK have kept their man, and Malmo FF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.68 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market17 Aug 2026
Charleroi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.65, 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 10 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Malmo FF until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market17 Aug 2026
The chase for Oskar Fallenius ended with $660.0K changing hands and Djurgarden out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Match15 Aug 2026
Malmo FF 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.
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Upbeat
Squad10 Aug 2026
5 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑1 against IFK Norrkoping, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 8.55 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Busanello has gone, the accounts have $5.4M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market10 Aug 2026
AIK paid $5.4M and Malmo FF took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ilves come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$660.0K on the table at Djurgarden. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sead Hakšabanović and Malmo FF agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Diego Enríquez comes from Sporting Cristal for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Aug 2026
Djurgarden throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with IF Elfsborg the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Djurgarden will enjoy reviewing.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$3.2M on the table at Hammarby. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.85, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kristian Strømland Lien and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match1 Aug 2026
IF Elfsborg left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Djurgarden have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Djurgarden training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Stensson 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.