Position 2, 46 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adolf Daði Birgisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FH will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Runar Norheim trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. FH have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at FH, another week without a signature from Tómas Orri Róbertsson.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baldur Kári Helgason 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.
Sigurdur Fridjonsson 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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Grétar Snær Gunnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and FH will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adolf Daði Birgisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson 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.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Baldur Kári Helgason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
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.
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 has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kristján Flóki Finnbogason signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FH has been clear about where Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson stands, which is more than many ever get.
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.
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. FH would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason signs something — a contract at FH or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. FH will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
21 games, 4 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at FH now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Atli Þór Jónasson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The 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.
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Marked 8.16 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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.
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Dagur Saevarsson kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson 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 manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Halid Alghoul is on it.
14 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Gabriel Vidović in the middle of it, and KR unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baldur Kári Helgason 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.
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 Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason.
Position 2, 39 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adolf Daði Birgisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Hilmar Karlsson and FH agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
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 0‑2 Dagur Saevarsson left the room before anybody could ask which.
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.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panathinaikos have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Atli Þór Jónasson. 1‑0 against Fylkir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Valur next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
FH close the window on a squad of their own making
13 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Runar Norheim 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Haukur Saevarsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Olafur Bjarnason has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
FH asked and FC Midtjylland 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 manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Grétar Snær Gunnarsson has his answer from FH; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Stjarnan arrived with $550.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FH people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Sverrir Páll Hjaltested has gone, the accounts have $550.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adolf Daði Birgisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Panathinaikos is saying, and nobody at FH is enjoying the guessing.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Fjolnir will make the call about Kjartan Kári Halldórsson this week. FH have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. FH know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Baldur Kári Helgason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
Transfer targetsA loan move for Kparobo Arierhi is in the works
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fjolnir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at IA, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Oddgeir Ingi Friðbjörnsson has agreed terms with Stjarnan for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The name of Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson has come up in conversations FH were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
25 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Half the programme played, position 1, 25 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Keflavik scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Baldur Kári Helgason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Baldvin Þór Berndsen 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Baldur Kári Helgason has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Dagur Saevarsson could afford to be generous.
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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yago Santiago was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kjartan Kári Halldórsson. 2‑1 against Valur, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
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.
17 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FH is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yago Santiago 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 FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kjartan Kári Halldórsson. 2‑1 against Fylkir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation FH did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A brace, and Yago Santiago takes the afternoon — 8.41
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yago Santiago provided it, and the 8.41 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arngrímur Bjartur Guðmundsson and FH agree another 4 years.
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.
90 minutes played. Daði Berg Jónsson found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and IA went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Jökull Andrésson 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 Yago Santiago was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Yago Santiago 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.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then IBV scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
The dugout24 May 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Tobias Carlsson'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.
It needed Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against IBV, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adolf Daði Birgisson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FH the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Yago Santiago was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad10 May 2027
Yago Santiago 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.
Baldvin Þór Berndsen 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.
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.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Vikingur scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FH have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yago Santiago 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kristján Flóki Finnbogason. 2‑1 against Leiknir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
“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 FH, and 3 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FH, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FH they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yago Santiago was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH 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 FH. 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 Yago Santiago’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wycombe Wanderers have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jón Hrafn Barkarson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fjolnir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Position 2 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at FH 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.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FC Nordsjaelland keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
FH asked and CSKA Moscow 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 manager has re-ordered his thinking and Guðmann Þórisson has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
“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 FH, and 0 appearances in 7 say he has earned the hearing.
Add another name to the list: Fjolnir have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Adolf Daði Birgisson. The answer from FH has not changed — yet.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yago Santiago 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 watch every FH game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sarpsborg 08 runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
FC Nordsjaelland 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.
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The deal with Stjarnan 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I watch every FH game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Fjolnir runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
A loan enquiry to Racing Santander: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Porto keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. FH will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Red Bull Salzburg have kept their man, and FH go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Guðmundur Andri Tryggvason 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Baldur Kári Helgason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FH have done the hard part with IBV, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson 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 have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FH can pretend not to have heard.
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.
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FH will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. FH have done the hard part with Keflavik, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
$40.0K was the most the club would pay and IA were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arngrímur Bjartur Guðmundsson and FH agree another 4 years.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FH has been clear about where Grétar Snær Gunnarsson stands, which is more than many ever get.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baldur Kári Helgason 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.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Fjolnir waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FH is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $44.5K — a club that wants Árni Salvar Heimisson enough to be asked twice.
Add another name to the list: Keflavik have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson. The answer from FH has not changed — yet.
The offer went to IA 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 offer went to Vikingur 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.
Baldur Kári Helgason 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at FH would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Baldur Kári Helgason was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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 Bjarni Guðjón Brynjólfsson has written the date down.
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Grétar Snær Gunnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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 Sverrir Páll Hjaltested has written the date down.
Position 2, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hilmar Karlsson is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
SquadWords at FH training over how hard people work
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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 Sverrir Páll Hjaltested has written the date down.
The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.
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.
Position 2, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. FH will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one FH will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson 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 FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
Position 2, 20 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Jökull Andrésson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at FH that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Óttar Uni Steinbjörnsson 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.
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FH lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Adolf Daði Birgisson is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
SquadWords at FH training over how hard people work
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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.
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emil Johannsson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Grétar Snær Gunnarsson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FH know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The words a physio says slowly. 48 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.
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.
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. FH will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Baldur Kári Helgason 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.
57 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Dagur Saevarsson kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
64 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jóhannes Kristinn Bjarnason did not need any: 8.19, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jóhannes Kristinn Bjarnason has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Marked 8.48 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
8.00. 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.
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FH lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Johann Adalsteinsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
8.09. 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.
Rúnar Gissurarson 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.
81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FH lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. FH have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Kristján Flóki Finnbogason has come out of that comparison in the side, and FH have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
“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.
Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kristján Flóki Finnbogason. 2‑0 against Fylkir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Marked 7.93 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Vikingur go through and FH go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
94 minutes played. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Fjolnir went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FH, and it is not being withdrawn.
The deal with KR 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.
FH asked and Zulte Waregem said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kjartan Kári Halldórsson. 2‑1 against Fjolnir, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Jóhann Ægir Arnarsson 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.
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.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
FH had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Tours, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
The offer went to KR 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FH this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The phone has started ringing about Daði Freyr Arnarsson again, and this time the name on the line is Fjolnir. FH are listening politely and promising nothing.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 88. IA had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Two goals and a mark of 9.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Viking keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Jökull Andrésson 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kjartan Kári Halldórsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Haukur Saevarsson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The offer from Valur for Kjartan Kári Halldórsson 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.
Add another name to the list: Fjolnir have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hilmar Karlsson. The answer from FH has not changed — yet.
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.