Hong Hyun-Seok and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magnus Mattsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Júnior Brumado wants continental football; whether FC Midtjylland can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
“I watch every FC Midtjylland game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at IA runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Midtjylland. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Martin Erlić’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
26 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majeed Waris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FC Midtjylland has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Chichi Capo had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Viktoria Plzen is saying, and nobody at FC Midtjylland is enjoying the guessing.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majeed Waris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and FC Midtjylland know now that the thought has arrived.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and FC Midtjylland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The enquiry everybody at FC Midtjylland was hoping would not arrive has arrived. He has never pretended he did not want to go back, and now there is somewhere to go back to.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rasmus Kristensen signs something — a contract at FC Midtjylland or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at FC Midtjylland is running low.
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Midtjylland may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at FC Midtjylland until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
FC Midtjylland had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Veres, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torino have kept their man, and FC Midtjylland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
FC Midtjylland ran out of time with FC Nordsjaelland. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
“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 FC Midtjylland, and 4 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
SquadWords at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Lokomotiv Moscow is saying, and nobody at FC Midtjylland is enjoying the guessing.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Magnus Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
FC Midtjylland asked and Sheffield United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“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 FC Midtjylland, and 4 appearances in 23 say he has earned the hearing.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Midtjylland know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Midtjylland. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Hajduk Split is saying, and nobody at FC Midtjylland is enjoying the guessing.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bloemfontein Celtic have kept their man, and FC Midtjylland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at FC Midtjylland has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Midtjylland. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Brondby keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sebastian Lodberg is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Hong Hyun-Seok was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
FC Midtjylland asked and Krasnodar said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magnus Mattsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Hajduk Split have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rasmus Kristensen signs something — a contract at FC Midtjylland or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The offer from FC Copenhagen for Denil Castillo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Majeed Waris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and FC Midtjylland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“I watch every FC Midtjylland game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Mansfield Town runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
A loan enquiry to Lokomotiv Moscow: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Something was said to Hong Hyun-Seok and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FC Midtjylland know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Lamine Sadio has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at FC Midtjylland heard it as anything else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
4 goals in 16 games at Beitar Jerusalem — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at FC Midtjylland updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Júnior Brumado has written the date down.
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Lukas Schmeichel after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rasmus Kristensen signs something — a contract at FC Midtjylland or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Majeed Waris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I watch every FC Midtjylland game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Mansfield Town runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Randers left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Lukas Schmeichel left the room before anybody could ask which.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Victor Bak is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Philip Billing was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Something was said to Majeed Waris and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
“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 FC Midtjylland, and 4 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Martin Erlić.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and William Kaastrup was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Randers go through and FC Midtjylland go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match21 Nov 2026
Mileta Rajović wins it after the whistle should have gone
93 minutes played. Mileta Rajović found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Esbjerg went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Majeed Waris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Hong Hyun-Seok and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mileta Rajović. 2‑1 against Esbjerg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Esbjerg. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Victor Bak was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.04. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around FC Midtjylland are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Hong Hyun-Seok was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
A point taken on 96 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Philip Billing and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Magnus Mattsson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“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 FC Midtjylland, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
“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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Majeed Waris was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Magnus Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
0‑3 to FC Nordsjaelland, 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majeed Waris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Hobro next, and one man in the FC Midtjylland dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Midtjylland have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Brondby were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Magnus Mattsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Two goals and a mark of 8.99 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Philip Billing and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sebastian Lodberg is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about FC Midtjylland and FC Copenhagen in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
FC Copenhagen left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
“I watch every FC Midtjylland game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Mansfield Town runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Midtjylland are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majeed Waris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Hong Hyun-Seok and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Magnus Mattsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Level with 88 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon FC Midtjylland had all but put away. SonderjyskE will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Lukas Schmeichel was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the FC Midtjylland dressing room was either.
In brief
Player ratingsMajeed Waris beats them one at a time
FC Midtjylland ran out of time with AGF. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Majeed Waris falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 90. Randers had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
“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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Mikel Gogorza's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” William Kaastrup and FC Midtjylland agree another 4 years.
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. FC Midtjylland lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Midtjylland lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
1 for Magnus Mattsson, marked 7.43, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Philip Billing and FC Midtjylland agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majeed Waris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Pedro Bravo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Midtjylland lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The deal with New York City is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. FC Copenhagen moved on, Philip Billing reports back to FC Midtjylland, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
The bid was some way short and FC Midtjylland did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 6 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at FC Midtjylland until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Alberto Velásquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aalborg have kept their man, and FC Midtjylland go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. FC Midtjylland have lost him in all but the paperwork.
FC Midtjylland have gone to New York City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
FC Midtjylland asked and Ajax Cape Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The offer went to Randers this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The phone has started ringing about Philip Billing again, and this time the name on the line is FC Copenhagen. FC Midtjylland are listening politely and promising nothing.
FC Midtjylland offered $12.0M; Colorado Rapids said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at FC Midtjylland training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Majeed Waris is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
FC Midtjylland have gone to PAOK with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $3.8M has been paid because Magnus Mattsson is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
FC Midtjylland asked and Aalborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Midtjylland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
$3.8M on the table at FC Copenhagen. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The clubs have shaken hands with FC Nordsjaelland; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
FC Midtjylland have gone to Brondby with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The offer from Hammarby for Mikael Uhre was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alberto Velásquez and FC Midtjylland agree another 3 years.
“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.
Alberto Velásquez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Stefano Vecchia has, at FC Midtjylland, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.