17 Sep 2029
Monday
Process
163 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for AIK

A 2-1 win over Djurgarden, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.67 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

AIK get the job done against Helsingborg

A 2-1 win over Helsingborg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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

Bamir Sadiku signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bamir Sadiku commits to AIK for another 4 years.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Pablo Ceppelini will call it something else in private.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Dino Beširović

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.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

AIK put Daniel Borges up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Daniel Borges may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
162 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Yaw Paintsil signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yaw Paintsil commits to AIK for another 3 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Axel Kouamé

“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.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Amir Saipi

8 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Amir Saipi has given nobody the chance.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Kristoffer Nordfeldt placed on the list

AIK have made Kristoffer Nordfeldt available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Match

No goals between AIK and IF Elfsborg

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. IF Elfsborg will be the happier side with the point.

Market

Gonzalo Goñi linked with a move away

The name of Gonzalo Goñi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

161 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

AIK up to position 2

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

Market

Dylan Cabral 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Market

FF Jaro come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AIK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Erik Flataker is carrying AIK

9 goals and a season average of 7.41. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

AIK come up short against IFK Goteborg

IFK Goteborg left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Gonzalo Goñi

“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.

Squad

Axel Kouamé 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.

Squad

Amir Saipi shuts the door again

7 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Amir Saipi

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.

In brief

160 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Norton de Carvalho Otterud 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Market

FF Jaro watching Norberto Bedolla

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AIK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mads Døhr Thychosen

“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.

Market

BK Hacken are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AIK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Axel Kouamé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.37 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Amir Saipi lets one through his hands

A 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.

Loan watch

Gustav Olsson wants to come home

“I did not go to Helsingborg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.

Match

Honours even between AIK and IFK Norrkoping

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

José Río 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Market The Dino Beširović talk will not go away
  • Boardroom The AIK production line keeps running
159 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Daniel Borges 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Daniel Borges: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Amir Saipi

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.

Squad

Johan Hove is carrying AIK

9 goals and a season average of 7.65. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

BK Hacken watching Emmanuel Gono

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AIK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

AIK see off Kalmar FF

Three points for AIK, 2-1 the final word against Kalmar FF in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini 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.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Bruno Cabrera placed on the list

AIK have made Bruno Cabrera available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

158 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Amir Saipi

There were 12 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.

Market

Gonzalo Goñi asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

AIK sign Norberto Bedolla for $3.0M

The paperwork is done: Norberto Bedolla joins from San Martín SJ in a deal worth $3.0M. Now comes the harder part.

Market

Amir Saipi 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 AIK hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Johan Hove is carrying AIK

8 goals and a season average of 7.59. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nemanja Gudelj

“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.

Match

Malmo FF take the points off AIK

Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Kristoffer Nordfeldt told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kristoffer Nordfeldt has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AIK.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

In brief

  • Squad The armband comes off Axel Kouamé
  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Johan Hove
  • Boardroom AIK board back the manager
157 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten AIK

The unbeaten run reaches 20. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Dylan Cabral 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Market

AIK turn down IFK Norrkoping for Emmanuel Gono

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

Squad

Erik Flataker is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.46 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

AIK find a way past Atvidaberg

Atvidaberg made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Amir Saipi 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

Another clean sheet for Amir Saipi

7 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Amir Saipi has given nobody the chance.

Market

Falkenberg expected to open talks for Frederik Moberg-Søemod

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

156 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Still nobody has beaten AIK

The unbeaten run reaches 19. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

AIK turn down Malmo FF for Erik Flataker

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

Market

AIK sell Amir Hajsafi for $1.6M

Amir Hajsafi has left for IFK Goteborg in a $1.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.55 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Victor Andersson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Victor Andersson and AIK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Dylan Cabral 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.

Loan watch

Gustav Olsson wants to come home

“I did not go to Helsingborg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Match

Honours even between AIK and Orebro

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

155 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

16 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten AIK

The unbeaten run reaches 18. 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

Bruno Cabrera says AIK 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

Dino Beširović 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

Axel Kouamé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.36 with 3 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini 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.

Match

No goals between AIK and BK Hacken

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. BK Hacken will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

154 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten AIK

The unbeaten run reaches 17. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

AIK march on in the cup

GIF Sundsvall are out and AIK go through, 1-0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Amir Saipi

There were 7 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.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nemanja Gudelj and AIK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.50 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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.

Match

Honours even between AIK and Djurgarden

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The terraces

The press cannot get enough of Amir Saipi

Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.

In brief

  • Boardroom AIK board back the manager
  • The terraces Bamir Sadiku has his own song now
153 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Dylan Cabral 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Match

AIK make it 5 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AIK have 5 straight wins of it.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nemanja Gudelj commits to AIK for another 2 years.

Market

Nikolaj Staykov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Erik Flataker is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.52 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

AIK find a way past Falkenberg

Falkenberg made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Yaw Paintsil 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.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

In brief

152 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK make it 4 in a row

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

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Erik Flataker is carrying AIK

8 goals and a season average of 7.45. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

AIK get the job done against GIF Sundsvall

A 2-1 win over GIF Sundsvall, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi 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.

Loan watch

Gustav Olsson wants to come home

“I did not go to Helsingborg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

Market

Gonzalo Goñi linked with a move away

The name of Gonzalo Goñi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Daniel Borges 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.

Boardroom

The AIK production line keeps running

19 graduates out of an academy now rated 15 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

151 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK make it 3 in a row

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

Match

AIK see off Gefle

Three points for AIK, 3-2 the final word against Gefle in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kristoffer Nordfeldt

“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.

Squad

Erik Flataker is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.38 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Amir Saipi shuts the door again

6 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

Squad

Yaw Paintsil 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.

In brief

150 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

12 unbeaten for AIK

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation AIK did not have in the autumn.

Match

AIK see off Halmstad

Three points for AIK, 2-1 the final word against Halmstad in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Pablo Ceppelini

“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.

Squad

Erik Flataker is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.32 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Axel Kouamé finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. AIK have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

  • Squad Dylan Cabral asks for a word with the manager
  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Axel Kouamé
  • Boardroom The AIK board put their names to it
149 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK silence Hammarby

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 1-0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 23 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

11 unbeaten for AIK

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation AIK did not have in the autumn.

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Nikolaj Staykov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Yannick Geiger is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.03 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. AIK know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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

Erik Flataker named player of the month

The award goes to Erik Flataker, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

In brief

148 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

28 May 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten AIK

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Loan watch

Gustav Olsson has seen enough of Helsingborg

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Nils Bertilsson

“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.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj suspended

One booking too many, and Nemanja Gudelj sits out. AIK lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

Match

No goals between AIK and Helsingborg

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Helsingborg will be the happier side with the point.

Market

The Gonzalo Goñi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

AIK put Nikolaj Staykov up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Nikolaj Staykov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

147 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK 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.

Match

AIK find a way past IF Elfsborg

IF Elfsborg made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mads Døhr Thychosen

“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.

Squad

Johan Hove is carrying AIK

4 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Axel Kouamé wants a proper job in this side

Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Axel Kouamé has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. AIK know, and have known for weeks.

In brief

146 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

AIK cannot stop winning

4 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.

Squad

Taha Ayari stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Taha Ayari and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

AIK get the job done against IFK Goteborg

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dylan Cabral

“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.

Squad

Erik Flataker is carrying AIK

6 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

145 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

7 May 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK march on in the cup

Falkenberg are out and AIK go through, 2-1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

AIK tear IFK Norrkoping apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4-0 against IFK Norrkoping, and it could have been more.

Market

Dylan Cabral asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

3 goals for Erik Flataker

The match ball belongs to Erik Flataker, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Amir Saipi 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 AIK hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match

AIK 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.

Market

Nikolaj Staykov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

The month belongs to Erik Flataker

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. AIK have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

In brief

144 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

AIK see off Kalmar FF

Three points for AIK, 3-1 the final word against Kalmar FF in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Loan watch

Gustav Olsson has seen enough of Helsingborg

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Antonio Palac 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

Nemanja Gudelj is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

Yaw Paintsil 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.

Squad

Oswaldo Virgen is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

The Gonzalo Goñi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Boardroom

AIK keep producing them

19 graduates from an academy now rated 15 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

143 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

23 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

AIK lose Pablo Ceppelini

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi 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.

Match

No goals between AIK and Malmo FF

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Malmo FF will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

142 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dino Beširović 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.

Match

AIK see off Atvidaberg

Three points for AIK, 2-0 the final word against Atvidaberg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Johan Hove is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

141 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nikolaj Staykov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

AIK find a way past Orebro

Orebro made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Daniel Vernattus

“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.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Maximiliano Gómez is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Squad

Erik Flataker finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. AIK have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Market

The Amir Saipi talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

The window shut and Pablo Ceppelini is still in the building

AIK spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

Market

Christopher Drakos leaves AIK for nothing

No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Christopher Drakos moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.

In brief

  • The terraces The press cannot get enough of Johan Hove
  • The terraces Johan Hove has his own song now
140 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

A new deal for Joel Hiljemark

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Erik Lustig comes home

The shirt still fits. Erik Lustig is back at AIK, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Viktor Tankovic is a AIK player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Kristoffer Lindelof comes home

The shirt still fits. Kristoffer Lindelof is back at AIK, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Loan watch

Gustav Olsson has seen enough of Helsingborg

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Nils Bertilsson 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Boardroom

AIK keep producing them

19 graduates from an academy now rated 15 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

Squad

The manager comes out for Johan Hove

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Johan Hove has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

139 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

AIK turn down IFK Goteborg for Amir Hajsafi

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

Squad

Amir Hajsafi 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.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Daniel Borges placed on the list

AIK have made Daniel Borges available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Market

Oswaldo Virgen arrives on loan

AIK have taken Oswaldo Virgen on loan from Sporting CP — cover where cover was needed.

Squad

Nils Bertilsson 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.

In brief

138 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

AIK turn down Helsingborg for Emmanuel Gono

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Victor Andersson

“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.

Market

Falkenberg expected to open talks for Frederik Moberg-Søemod

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

137 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Amir Hajsafi asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Emmanuel Gono attracts admirers

The name of Emmanuel Gono has come up in conversations AIK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Nikolaj Staykov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikolaj Staykov commits to AIK for another 4 years.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

AIK put Bruno Cabrera up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Bruno Cabrera may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

136 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Pablo Ceppelini asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 53 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Max Karimatsenga moves on

BK Hacken pay $400.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

Market

Falkenberg are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AIK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Bamir Sadiku 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.

Market

Amir Saipi linked with a move away

The name of Amir Saipi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Yannick Geiger 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.

Squad

Johan Hove loses a friend at AIK

The move was somebody else's story. What it left behind was a dressing-room stall nobody has taken and a player who keeps looking at it.

In brief

135 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Harold Gómez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Daniel Borges placed on the list

AIK have made Daniel Borges available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini is starting to look at home

The language is arriving, the jokes are landing, and there is somebody at the next peg to talk to. None of it appears in a scouting report and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

134 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dino Beširović says AIK 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.

Market

Maximiliano Gómez is a AIK player

The fee is $2.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Nacional drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

AIK turn down GIF Sundsvall for Gustav Olsson

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

Squad

Maximiliano Gómez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Maximiliano Gómez and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Falkenberg expected to open talks for Frederik Moberg-Søemod

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

Amir Hajsafi is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AIK has been clear about where Amir Hajsafi stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

133 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nils Bertilsson says AIK 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.

Market

AIK sell Sixten Gustafsson for $800.0K

Sixten Gustafsson has left for IF Elfsborg in a $800.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Pablo Ceppelini is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at AIK has been clear about where Pablo Ceppelini stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad

Daniel Vernattus stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Vernattus and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Talks stall between AIK and Dylan Cabral

“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.

Market

GIF Sundsvall are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AIK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

132 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 53 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

Market

IF Elfsborg are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AIK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Bruno Cabrera 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.

Market

Sixten Gustafsson told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sixten Gustafsson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AIK.

Market

Experience through the door at AIK

Daniel Borges arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

Amir Saipi linked with a move away

The name of Amir Saipi keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Somebody is after Johan Hove’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Johan Hove suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AIK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

Squad

Nils Bertilsson 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Boardroom AIK keep producing them
  • Squad Gonzalo Goñi is starting to look at home
131 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Harold Gómez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

130 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Victor Andersson: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Gustav Olsson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Yannick Geiger 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

129 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ibrahim Cissé says AIK 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.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Yannick Geiger 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

128 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 53 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Emmanuel Gono and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

In brief

127 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Harold Gómez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Amir Saipi 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 AIK hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Nils Bertilsson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nils Bertilsson commits to AIK for another 4 years.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono 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

The armband comes off Nemanja Gudelj

AIK will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

126 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Gustav Olsson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Bruno Cabrera 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

125 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Amir Saipi

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.

Match

No end in sight to AIK's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AIK has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kristoffer Nordfeldt will call it something else in private.

Squad

Taha Ayari 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

Axel Kouamé is carrying AIK

5 goals and a season average of 7.34. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Honours even between AIK and KV Mechelen

2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

124 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 53 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Bamir Sadiku 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.

Boardroom

AIK keep producing them

11 graduates from an academy now rated 15 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

123 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for AIK

Beaten 0-4 by Valencia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

6 matches without a win for AIK

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around AIK are no longer polite ones.

Market

Harold Gómez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nemanja Gudelj and AIK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.39 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Deiver Machado

“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.

Squad

No place for Dino Beširović 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 AIK pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Boardroom

Inquest at AIK

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

In brief

122 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Gustav Olsson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Ibrahim Cissé 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Loan watch

6 goals on loan for Emmanuel Gono

18 appearances at OB and the goals keep coming. AIK are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

In brief

121 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Amir Hajsafi 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

Ibrahim Cissé 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.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

120 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

AIK are in Europe

Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 53 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

5 matches without a win for AIK

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AIK are no longer polite ones.

Match

A bad afternoon for AIK against AZ

0-2 to AZ, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

No place for Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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 AIK pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

119 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Harold Gómez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Ibrahim Cissé 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

The month belongs to Thomás De Martis

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. AIK have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

118 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

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.

Match

AIK taken apart

0-4 to AZ, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match

No end in sight to AIK's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AIK has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Gustav Olsson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Johan Hove is carrying AIK

9 goals and a season average of 7.39. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Deiver Machado 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

117 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

8 unbeaten for AIK

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation AIK did not have in the autumn.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dino Beširović

“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.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi is carrying AIK

4 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Honours even between AIK and BK Hacken

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

116 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

AIK up to position 3

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

Match

7 unbeaten for AIK

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

Squad

Adam Ekdal out for 20 days

The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Adam Ekdal, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Axel Kouamé is carrying AIK

5 goals and a season average of 7.35. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Daniel Vernattus 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.

Match

Honours even between AIK and Djurgarden

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

115 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Harold Gómez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

6 unbeaten for AIK

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation AIK did not have in the autumn.

Match

AIK get the job done against KV Mechelen

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

Squad

Max Karimatsenga stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Max Karimatsenga and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Kristoffer Nordfeldt will call it something else in private.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Charlie Rosenqvist

“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.

Match

AIK and Falkenberg take a point apiece

It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj is carrying AIK

3 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

114 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Amir Saipi wants more than AIK are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Gustav Olsson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.40 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match

AIK get the job done against GIF Sundsvall

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Taha Ayari

“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.

Squad

Johan Hove named player of the month

The award goes to Johan Hove, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

Squad

No place for Ibrahim Cissé 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 AIK pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod placed on the list

AIK have made Frederik Moberg-Søemod available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

113 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AIK find a way past Gefle

Gefle made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

No place for Axel Kouamé 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 AIK pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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

Costly mistake from Amir Saipi

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Amir Saipi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Match

AIK share the spoils with Valencia

A 2-2 draw with Valencia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

112 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

AIK up to position 3

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

Squad

Adam Ekdal out for 50 days

The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for Adam Ekdal, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

AIK find a way past Halmstad

Halmstad made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Dino Beširović left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Dino Beširović will call it something else in private.

Squad

Yannick Geiger 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

Axel Kouamé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.36 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

  • Boardroom AIK keep producing them
  • The terraces The press have found their man in Johan Hove
  • The terraces Gonzalo Goñi has his own song now
111 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A derby to forget for AIK

Beaten 0-1 by Hammarby in the one fixture where losing is not allowed. The football was bad enough; the week ahead will be worse.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Amir Saipi

There were 8 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.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.31 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Bamir Sadiku stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bamir Sadiku and AIK agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Loan watch

Norton de Carvalho Otterud has seen enough of Falkenberg

“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 AIK, and 8 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

110 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Amir Saipi

There were 7 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.

Squad

Harry Hilvenius says AIK 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.

Market

Gustav Olsson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AIK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gonzalo Goñi and AIK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

AIK see off Helsingborg

Three points for AIK, 2-1 the final word against Helsingborg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Nils Bertilsson out for 24 days

The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Nils Bertilsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Loan watch

Max Karimatsenga wants to come home

“I did not go to Valerenga to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 27 matches say the rest.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Amir Saipi

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

109 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

AIK come up short against IF Elfsborg

IF Elfsborg left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Mads Døhr Thychosen 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

Johan Hove is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Loan watch

Linus Dahlgren has seen enough of Stromsgodset

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Talks stall between AIK and Antonio Palac

“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.

Squad

Johan Hove unhappy with how he is being used

Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Johan Hove has let it be known that he does not like the way AIK are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.

Loan watch

Emmanuel Gono keeps scoring at OB

5 appearances away from home and 2 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

108 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

AIK up to position 2

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

Market

Antonio Palac is a AIK player

The fee is $1.2M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Malmo FF drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

AIK sign Charlie Rosenqvist for $790.0K

The paperwork is done: Charlie Rosenqvist joins from Kalmar FF in a deal worth $790.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Match

A bad afternoon for AIK against IFK Goteborg

2-3 to IFK Goteborg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod attracts admirers

The name of Frederik Moberg-Søemod has come up in conversations AIK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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

Axel Kouamé is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.37 with 5 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Loan watch

Bamir Sadiku wants to come home

“I did not go to Tromso to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Market Halmstad are about to pick up the phone
  • Squad Johan Hove has company in his position
  • Boardroom The AIK production line keeps running
107 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

AIK come up short against IFK Norrkoping

IFK Norrkoping left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Thomás De Martis 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.

Market

Atvidaberg expected to open talks for Ahmad Faqa

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Loan watch

Norton de Carvalho Otterud wants to come home

“I did not go to Falkenberg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini 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.

Squad

Johan Hove is carrying AIK

4 goals and a season average of 7.20. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

106 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

AIK lose Nils Bertilsson

53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

AIK see off Kalmar FF

Three points for AIK, 1-0 the final word against Kalmar FF in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

A long bet from AIK on Harry Hilvenius

He is 20, and nobody at AIK signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi named player of the month

The award goes to Gonzalo Goñi, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Boardroom

AIK release $4.8M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Squad

Axel Kouamé is carrying AIK

4 goals and a season average of 7.33. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Loan watch

Max Karimatsenga wants to come home

“I did not go to Valerenga to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 23 matches say the rest.

Market

Orebro expected to open talks for Frederik Moberg-Søemod

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

The armband comes off Dino Beširović

AIK will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

105 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Frederik Moberg-Søemod attracts admirers

The name of Frederik Moberg-Søemod has come up in conversations AIK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Bruno Cabrera 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.

Loan watch

Linus Dahlgren has seen enough of Stromsgodset

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

IFK Goteborg expected to open talks for Ahmad Faqa

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Honours even between AIK and Malmo FF

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

Ahmad Faqa told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ahmad Faqa has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AIK.

In brief

104 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AIK are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 34 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Gustav Friberg is a AIK player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

AIK turn down Atvidaberg for Gustav Olsson

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

Market

David Seger moves on

Malmo FF pay $1.3M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Match

AIK find a way past Atvidaberg

Atvidaberg made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mads Døhr Thychosen

“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.

Loan watch

Bamir Sadiku wants to come home

“I did not go to Tromso to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

In brief

103 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Malmo FF watching David Seger

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AIK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

AIK get the job done against Orebro

A 2-1 win over Orebro, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kristoffer Nordfeldt

“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.

Loan watch

Norton de Carvalho Otterud wants to come home

“I did not go to Falkenberg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

The terraces

The spotlight tightens on Amir Saipi

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.

Market

Dino Beširović linked with a move away

The name of Dino Beširović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

102 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

AIK out of the cup

IFK Goteborg ended it 0-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

AIK lose Taha Ayari

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Aalborg watching Emmanuel Gono

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AIK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

AIK come up short against BK Hacken

BK Hacken left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Amir Saipi

“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.

Squad

Costly mistake from Amir Saipi

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Amir Saipi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief

101 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Amir Saipi wants more than AIK are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Dino Beširović stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dino Beširović and AIK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Erik Flataker 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.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

Loan watch

Linus Dahlgren has seen enough of Stromsgodset

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

No goals between AIK and Djurgarden

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Djurgarden will be the happier side with the point.

Squad

Ibrahim Cissé 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini unhappy with how he is being used

Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Pablo Ceppelini has let it be known that he does not like the way AIK are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.

In brief

100 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AIK up to position 1

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

Squad

Ibrahim Cissé says AIK 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.

Market

AIK turn down Aalborg for Emmanuel Gono

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

Market

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

AIK 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.

Match

AIK see off Falkenberg

Three points for AIK, 3-1 the final word against Falkenberg in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Loan watch

Bamir Sadiku has seen enough of Tromso

“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 AIK, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Daniel Vernattus

“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.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

99 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

AIK find a way past GIF Sundsvall

GIF Sundsvall made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Bruno Cabrera 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.

Loan watch

Norton de Carvalho Otterud wants to come home

“I did not go to Falkenberg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Squad

Dino Beširović 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.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj is carrying AIK

3 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

98 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Taha Ayari out for 48 days

The medical room confirms 48 days on the sidelines for Taha Ayari, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

AIK see off Gefle

Three points for AIK, 2-0 the final word against Gefle in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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.

Market

Aalborg expected to open talks for Emmanuel Gono

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Loan watch

Max Karimatsenga has seen enough of Valerenga

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Gonzalo Goñi is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

97 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Emmanuel Gono attracts admirers

The name of Emmanuel Gono has come up in conversations AIK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Loan watch

Linus Dahlgren has seen enough of Stromsgodset

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Nemanja Gudelj. AIK will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Squad

Linus Järeteg 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.

Match

AIK draw a blank against Halmstad

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

In brief

96 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Hammarby take the derby

0-2, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.

Match

AIK up to position 1

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

Market

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Deiver Machado

“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.

Loan watch

Bamir Sadiku has seen enough of Tromso

“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 AIK, and 2 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Amir Saipi

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

Squad

Thomás De Martis has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. AIK lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

Boardroom

The AIK production line keeps running

11 graduates out of an academy now rated 15 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

In brief

95 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten AIK

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.

Match

AIK get the job done against Helsingborg

A 2-0 win over Helsingborg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Loan watch

Norton de Carvalho Otterud wants to come home

“I did not go to Falkenberg to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Squad

Kristoffer Nordfeldt 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

Thomás De Martis 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.

Market

Dino Beširović linked with a move away

The name of Dino Beširović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

94 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Axel Kouamé stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Axel Kouamé and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match

AIK get the job done against IF Elfsborg

A 3-2 win over IF Elfsborg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Costly mistake from Amir Saipi

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Amir Saipi knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Loan watch

Max Karimatsenga has seen enough of Valerenga

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 11 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Sotirios Papagiannopoulos

“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.

Squad

Axel Kouamé finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. AIK have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

93 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Cup progress for AIK

A 1-0 win over Orebro, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

Thomás De Martis says AIK 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

Nemanja Gudelj signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nemanja Gudelj commits to AIK for another 2 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Kristoffer Nordfeldt

“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.

Boardroom

$4.8M on the table at AIK

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.

Loan watch

Linus Dahlgren has seen enough of Stromsgodset

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

AIK share the spoils with IFK Goteborg

A 1-1 draw with IFK Goteborg leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Linus Järeteg

Every debut is a small story about the future: Linus Järeteg, 21 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

92 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Santino Daneri: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

AIK find a way past IFK Norrkoping

IFK Norrkoping made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Ibrahim Cissé 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.

Loan watch

Bamir Sadiku wants to come home

“I did not go to Tromso to sit and watch. I want to come back to AIK and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Squad

Johan Hove finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. AIK have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Squad

Victor Andersson 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.

Boardroom

The AIK production line keeps running

11 graduates out of an academy now rated 15 out of 20. Clubs this size survive on exactly that, and the town knows every name.

The terraces

The press cannot get enough of Dino Beširović

Praise is not points and never has been. It is, however, the fastest way for a valuation to move, and everybody in the game reads the same pages.

In brief

91 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Yannick Geiger says AIK 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

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Bruno Cabrera 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

90 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

Malmo FF take the points off AIK

Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Erik Flataker

“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.

In brief

89 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AIK have 7 straight wins of it.

Squad

Sixten Gustafsson says AIK 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.

Match

AIK find a way past Atvidaberg

Atvidaberg made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Gustav Olsson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gustav Olsson and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Nemanja Gudelj is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Thomás De Martis is off the mark for AIK

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

Market

Window shut, Sotirios Papagiannopoulos still here

AIK spent the window trying to move Sotirios Papagiannopoulos on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.

Market

Kalle Hagen leaves AIK for nothing

No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Kalle Hagen moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.

In brief

88 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AIK make it 6 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AIK have 6 straight wins of it.

Squad

Amir Saipi keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Sam Olsen is a AIK player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market

Gustav Olsson comes home

The shirt still fits. Gustav Olsson is back at AIK, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

Martin Isak is a AIK player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Match

AIK find a way past Orebro

Orebro made AIK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Loan watch

Max Karimatsenga has seen enough of Valerenga

“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 AIK, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

The armband comes off Johan Hove

AIK will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

In brief

87 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ilves expected to open talks for Linus Dahlgren

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

Dino Beširović linked with a move away

The name of Dino Beširović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Sixten Gustafsson 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.

In brief

86 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the AIK boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Linus Dahlgren stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Linus Dahlgren and AIK agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Emmanuel Gono linked with a move away

The name of Emmanuel Gono keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Ahmad Faqa 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Still no signature from Sotirios Papagiannopoulos

4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what AIK could get for him.

Squad

Pablo Ceppelini keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Pablo Ceppelini plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief

85 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Sixten Gustafsson asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

AIK turn down Ilves for Linus Dahlgren

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

Market

A long bet from AIK on Bamir Sadiku

He is 20, and nobody at AIK signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

HJK are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AIK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Emmanuel Gono keeps the shirt for now, at AIK's convenience rather than his own.

Squad

Ahmad Faqa 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.

In brief

84 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

AIK put Joel Hiljemark on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

AIK turn down Molde for Emmanuel Gono

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

Market

Harold Gómez asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Sotirios Papagiannopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AIK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Johan Hove stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Johan Hove and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono 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.

Boardroom

AIK pull $6.0M back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market

The Axel Kouamé talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Somebody is after Emmanuel Gono’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Emmanuel Gono suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AIK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

  • Boardroom AIK keep producing them
  • Boardroom AIK answer back
  • Squad Nemanja Gudelj keeps his manager's vote
83 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Tomás Orqueida asks to leave AIK

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Abdihakin Ali 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.

Market

Dino Beširović linked with a move away

The name of Dino Beširović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

AIK bring in Santino Daneri on loan

A season-long audition: Estudiantes still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are AIK's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Emmanuel Gono keeps the shirt for now, at AIK's convenience rather than his own.

Market

AIK put Harold Gómez up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Harold Gómez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

82 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at AIK

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

AIK turn down Gefle for Max Karimatsenga

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

Market

Roddick Torfason moves on

BK Hacken pay $84.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Molde expected to open talks for Emmanuel Gono

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AIK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market

Harold Gómez told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Harold Gómez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AIK.

Squad

Nils Bertilsson 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.

In brief

81 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eskil Edh moves on

Malmo FF pay $5.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

AIK sign Amir Saipi for $2.4M

The paperwork is done: Amir Saipi joins from IFK Norrkoping in a deal worth $2.4M. Now comes the harder part.

Market

IFK Goteborg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AIK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Roddick Torfason 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Harold Gómez

“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.

Squad

Somebody is after Nemanja Gudelj’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Nemanja Gudelj suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AIK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

80 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

FC Nordsjaelland come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AIK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ahmad Faqa 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

AIK lose Ibrahim Cissé

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

IFK Goteborg watching David Seger

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AIK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Erik Flataker stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Erik Flataker and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Alexander Máni Guðjónsson out for 34 days

The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Alexander Máni Guðjónsson, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

  • Market Atvidaberg are about to pick up the phone
  • Boardroom AIK pull $6.0M back off the table
  • Squad Nemanja Gudelj has company in his position
  • Boardroom AIK keep producing them
79 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

FC Nordsjaelland watching Emmanuel Gono

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AIK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Linus Järeteg signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Linus Järeteg commits to AIK for another 4 years.

Market

Dino Beširović linked with a move away

The name of Dino Beširović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

78 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eskil Edh 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the AIK boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Andreas Redkin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Andreas Redkin commits to AIK for another 4 years.

In brief

77 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

AIK lose Amr Shaaban

119 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of David Seger

“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.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

76 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

David Seger says AIK 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

Ibrahim Cissé out for 70 days

The medical room confirms 70 days on the sidelines for Ibrahim Cissé, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Abdihakin Ali 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

75 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

AIK put Joel Hiljemark on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

David Seger stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Seger and AIK agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Abdihakin Ali 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Boardroom

AIK pull $6.0M back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Boardroom

AIK answer back

A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.

In brief

74 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the AIK boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Emmanuel Gono and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Max Karimatsenga 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

73 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eskil Edh 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Amr Shaaban out for 149 days

The medical room confirms 149 days on the sidelines for Amr Shaaban, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Amr Shaaban 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

72 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Ahmad Faqa says AIK 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

Ibrahim Cissé out for 99 days

The medical room confirms 99 days on the sidelines for Ibrahim Cissé, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Sixten Gustafsson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sixten Gustafsson commits to AIK for another 4 years.

In brief

71 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

AIK put Joel Hiljemark on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

Amr Shaaban signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amr Shaaban commits to AIK for another 1 years.

Boardroom

AIK pull $6.0M back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market

The Dino Beširović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AIK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Ahmad Faqa 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Boardroom

AIK answer back

A squad written off a fortnight ago has closed ranks. Whatever was said behind that door, it has held so far.

In brief

70 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the AIK boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Max Karimatsenga 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

69 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eskil Edh 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

David Seger 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

Emmanuel Gono 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.

In brief

68 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nils Bertilsson: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Axel Kouamé linked with a move away

The name of Axel Kouamé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AIK say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

David Seger 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 AIK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

67 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Yannick Geiger stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Yannick Geiger and AIK agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

The month belongs to Erik Flataker

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. AIK have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Yannick Geiger

“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.

In brief

66 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the AIK boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Max Karimatsenga 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

Yannick Geiger 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.

In brief

65 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Linus Dahlgren keeps AIK in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Eskil Edh 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 AIK can pretend not to have heard.

Match

AIK 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.

Squad

Max Karimatsenga: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

AIK see off BK Hacken

Three points for AIK, 3-2 the final word against BK Hacken in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Erik Flataker is carrying AIK

9 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

64 Edition

The AIK Sentinel

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AIK silence Djurgarden

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2-0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Squad

Harold Gómez: 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.” AIK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

AIK cannot stop winning

4 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.

Squad

Emmanuel Gono signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emmanuel Gono commits to AIK for another 5 years.

Squad

Mads Døhr Thychosen 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

Abdihakin Ali has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. AIK lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief