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Market15 Feb 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Malmo FF people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
$11.4M on the table at Udinese. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Match15 Feb 2027
The view from the top for Malmo FF
30 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Marcus Rohdén arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Marcus Rohdén has, at Malmo FF, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market15 Feb 2027
FC Lahti come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Pontus Jansson 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anders Christiansen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$4.3M on the table at Hammarby. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$120.0K settles it between the clubs for Marcus Rohdén
IF Elfsborg have accepted the money. What Malmo FF do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market8 Feb 2027
The bid was some way short and Malmo FF did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Malmo FF asked and Djurgarden said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Helsingborg paid $760.0K and Malmo FF took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market8 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: AIK have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daníel Guðjohnsen. The answer from Malmo FF has not changed — yet.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Taylor is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Elliott Andersson and Malmo FF agree another 3 years.
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Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anders Christiansen 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lars Sætra commits to Malmo FF for another 1 years.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Lars Sætra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Mayckel Lahdo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kenan Busuladžić, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Malmo FF would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad25 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Anders Christiansen 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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 dugout25 Jan 2027
Robin Olsen gets picked when it counts
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 Robin Olsen is on it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Otto Rosengren knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Otto Rosengren trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Match18 Jan 2027
30 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Arnór Sigurðsson: 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.” Malmo FF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pontus Jansson 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Robert Taylor 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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 dugout18 Jan 2027
Robert Taylor has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Otto Rosengren 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 Malmo FF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Robert Taylor keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Malmo FF say nothing, which says plenty.
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Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Anders Christiansen 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The formation has left Miro Tenho behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Malmo FF will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Warren Kamanzi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Malmo FF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Malmo FF had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Miro Tenho gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Miro Tenho has just signed for Malmo FF, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Otto Rosengren 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Warren Kamanzi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Adrian Skogmar 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
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 Abdihakin Ali has written the date down.
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Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Robert Taylor 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Skogmar, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Robin Olsen gets picked when it counts
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 Robin Olsen is on it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Malmo FF will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Match21 Dec 2026
First, on 30 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anders Christiansen 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bleon Kurtuluş and Malmo FF agree another 5 years.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Adrian Skogmar 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Robert Taylor has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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.
Market21 Dec 2026
The name of Robert Taylor keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Malmo FF say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes Lars Sætra a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Malmo FF. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Match12 Dec 2026
A European night to remember for Malmo FF
0‑0 against AZ, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match12 Dec 2026
15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Anders Christiansen 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yanis Karabelyov, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Warren Kamanzi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
No place for Johan Dahlin 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 Malmo FF pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Stian Rode Gregersen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lars Sætra and Malmo FF agree another 1 years.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Otto Rosengren
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
$6.2M on the table at Malmo FF
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Viggo Jeppsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Match28 Nov 2026
A European night to remember for Malmo FF
0‑0 against Dynamo Kyiv, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Anders Christiansen 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Arnór Sigurðsson ran the middle of the pitch — 7.05
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 7.05, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Johan Karlsson
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Robin Olsen gets picked when it counts
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 Robin Olsen is on it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Malmo FF, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Robert Taylor: 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.” Malmo FF have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match23 Nov 2026
First, on 30 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Pontus Jansson 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Anders Christiansen 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” William Nieroth Lundgren and Malmo FF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Arnór Sigurðsson 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Robert Taylor keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Malmo FF say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad16 Nov 2026
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Malmo FF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
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. Malmo FF will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Robin Olsen claims the golden glove
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Robin Olsen, on 9 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Lars Sætra 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Malmo FF know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
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Triumph
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad9 Nov 2026
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Malmo FF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Nov 2026
Malmo FF do the business in Europe
1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Malmo FF came through the finding-out well against Anderlecht.
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Otto Rosengren obliged against AIK. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Malmo FF.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match7 Nov 2026
Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit
15 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Otto Rosengren pops up at the right end — 7.70
7.70, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Anders Christiansen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Malmo FF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
49 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anders Christiansen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$6.2M on the table at Malmo FF
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Malmo FF
Something was said to Sead Hakšabanović and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Robin Olsen gets picked when it counts
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 Robin Olsen is on it.
Market2 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sead Hakšabanović signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Adrian Skogmar 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Malmo FF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match24 Oct 2026
4‑0, and Diego García took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Malmo FF tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match24 Oct 2026
Malmo FF beaten on the continent
1‑3 against Anderlecht, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Match26 Oct 2026
First, on 30 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Malmo FF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match24 Oct 2026
Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit
13 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Robert Taylor falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sead Hakšabanović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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 Sead Hakšabanović is on it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Marcus Svanberg after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Malmo FF?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Halmstad? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market19 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Robert Taylor signs something — a contract at Malmo FF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No place in the plan for Lars Sætra
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.
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Upbeat
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Oct 2026
The run at home goes on for Malmo FF
12 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tarik Karic commits to Malmo FF for another 4 years.
Match10 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Diego García’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Malmo FF.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anders Christiansen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Otto Rosengren
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 7.98 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Malmo FF had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Marcus Svanberg on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
The longest week starts now for Malmo FF
Beaten 0‑1 by IFK Goteborg in the one fixture that is never just a fixture. Work, school, the corner shop — there will be no getting away from this one.
Match3 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for Malmo FF
0‑0 against AZ, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad5 Oct 2026
82 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match3 Oct 2026
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Taylor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Warren Kamanzi will call it something else in private.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Malmo FF do not lose
13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match28 Sep 2026
23 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Mayckel Lahdo 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The run at home goes on for Malmo FF
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. William Nieroth Lundgren is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Robert Taylor 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
Three points for Malmo FF, 2‑0 the final word against Kalmar FF in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
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Looking ahead
The neighbours are next for Malmo FF
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Squad
11 new faces, and Malmo FF are still learning each other
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The dugout
Marcus Svanberg: “That is the standard”
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Upbeat
Match19 Sep 2026
A European night to remember for Malmo FF
0‑0 against Dynamo Kyiv, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Match19 Sep 2026
Atvidaberg will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Malmo FF were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match19 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Malmo FF do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.75 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Robert Taylor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
Malmo FF make home a hard place to visit
9 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.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
BK Hacken will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Mikkel Rygaard has pre-agreed a move to Malmo FF, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Malmo FF
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Taylor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Viggo Jeppsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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 dugout14 Sep 2026
Sead Hakšabanović has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Malmo FF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Malmo FF have changed shape — and kept it
Nothing was announced, because nothing ever is. The team sheet simply stopped looking the way it did, 2 matches ago, and it has not looked that way since. Every supporter noticed in the same week and none of them were told.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Malmo FF did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Malmo FF support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
Match5 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 8 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Taylor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Malmo FF this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Lucas Hägg Johansson has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Malmo FF have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Malmo FF prefer.
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 7‑0 against Gefle, and it could have been more.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Diego García takes the afternoon — 9.62
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego García provided it, and the 9.62 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match29 Aug 2026
Malmo FF cannot stop winning
7 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Robert Taylor, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Robert Taylor scored one and made one — 7.95
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.95, and 4 involvements.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clock did what Universitario would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Malmo FF and Gefle, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Johan Hammar has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Malmo FF have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Malmo FF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Anders Christiansen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Malmo FF
A 3‑0 win over Kalmar FF, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Universitario; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.37, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match22 Aug 2026
Malmo FF cannot stop winning
6 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Oscar Sjöstrand, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.52
A mark of 8.52 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hammarby have kept their man, and Malmo FF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sead Hakšabanović falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Pontus Jansson 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.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Malmo FF
A 2‑0 win over Gefle, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Pachuca wanted more than $7.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Malmo FF have gone to Universitario 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Oscar Sjöstrand at 21 — 8.19
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oscar Sjöstrand did not need any: 8.19, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $4.8M sale of Gabriel Busanello
He is going to BK Hacken, the club has $4.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market17 Aug 2026
BK Hacken pay $4.8M, 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Ain have kept their man, and Malmo FF go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
IFK Norrkoping pay $3.5M, 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Malmo FF make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Malmo FF have 4 straight wins of it.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Malmo FF people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sead Hakšabanović and Malmo FF agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Malmo FF
Mayckel Lahdo 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Atvidaberg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tarik Karic. The answer from Malmo FF has not changed — yet.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Malmo FF, 1‑0 the final word against IFK Norrkoping in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Malmo FF training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anders Christiansen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Arnór Sigurðsson scored in the 87th minute, AIK had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Malmo FF took the lot.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Pachuca 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
350 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Gabriel Busanello again, and this time the name on the line is BK Hacken. Malmo FF are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mayckel Lahdo and Malmo FF agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Malmo FF
Mayckel Lahdo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sead Hakšabanović falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match1 Aug 2026
Malmo FF get the job done against AIK
A 1‑0 win over AIK, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
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Market
49 months and counting on Diego García
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Player ratings
Nobody on the pitch touched Arnór Sigurðsson
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The dugout
The view from the dugout