2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process
27 Edition

The Randers Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Randers turn down FC Midtjylland for Mike Themsen

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

Squad

Oliver Højer is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.14 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Randers know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Loan watch

Sebastian Bangshof wants to come home

“I did not go to OB to sit and watch. I want to come back to Randers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.

Squad

Laurits Pedersen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Laurits Pedersen commits to Randers for another 5 years.

Squad

Daniel Høegh gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The Randers Post

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Noah Shamoun hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Randers can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ernest Agyiri gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

25 Edition

The Randers Post

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Market

Eyes on Ousseynou Seck again

The phone has started ringing about Ousseynou Seck again, and this time the name on the line is SonderjyskE. Randers are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

No hiding place for Frederik Lauenborg

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frederik Lauenborg, and the manager let it.

Market

The Wessel Dammers story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Wessel Dammers signs something — a contract at Randers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Amin Al-Hamawi’s exile

5 goals in 12 games at Stromsgodset — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Randers updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Squad

Thibault Klidjé has company in his position

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

Market

The shop window has Noah Shamoun in it

Randers have let the market know Noah Shamoun can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Squad

Warren Caddy 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 Warren Caddy trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Randers borrow Noah Markmann

A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Noah Markmann arrives from FC Nordsjaelland with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.

In brief

24 Edition

The Randers Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lucas Lissens moves on

FC Midtjylland pay $1.5M, 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.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Noah Shamoun gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

23 Edition

The Randers Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Randers turn down FC Copenhagen for Wessel Dammers

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

Squad

Oliver Højer is the real thing at 19

A season average of 7.14 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Randers know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Market

The Lucas Lissens conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: FC Midtjylland will make the call about Lucas Lissens this week. Randers have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Loan watch

Sebastian Bangshof wants to come home

“I did not go to OB to sit and watch. I want to come back to Randers and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Market

No place for Noah Shamoun in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Noah Shamoun has his answer from Randers; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

22 Edition

The Randers Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lucas Lissens hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Randers can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

97% of the income goes out in wages at Randers

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief

21 Edition

The Randers Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Noah Shamoun keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Randers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Frederik Lauenborg

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch

5 goals on loan for Amin Al-Hamawi

12 appearances at Stromsgodset and the goals keep coming. Randers are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market

The Ousseynou Seck story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ousseynou Seck signs something — a contract at Randers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Kevin Martínez placed on the list

Randers have made Kevin Martínez available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

20 Edition

The Randers Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Oliver Højer runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The wait goes on for Randers

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nothing got past John Björkengren

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Albert Ates out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Albert Ates, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Wessel Dammers

Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Thibault Klidjé keeps on missing

Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Daniel Høegh

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Point won or two lost for Randers?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Esbjerg? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

19 Edition

The Randers Post

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Remember the name: Oliver Højer

He is 19, he is averaging 7.12, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Match

4 matches without a win for Randers

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Randers are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Match

Randers come up short against FC Midtjylland

FC Midtjylland left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch

Sebastian Bangshof counts the days

“I watch every Randers game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at OB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Thibault Klidjé

Marked 8.34 — 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.

Squad

No place for Erik Marxen 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 Randers pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Elies Mahmoud

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The month belongs to Oliver Højer

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

In brief

18 Edition

The Randers Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Lucas Lissens hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Randers can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Paul Izzo lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Match

Randers come up short against Viborg

Viborg left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Oliver Højer in the eights

A performance of 8.78 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Mike Themsen gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

107% of the income goes out in wages at Randers

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Elies Mahmoud runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Erik Marxen 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 Randers, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

17 Edition

The Randers Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Randers bow out of the cup

FC Nordsjaelland go through and Randers go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Thibault Klidjé

“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 ratings

Noah Shamoun runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nikolas Dyhr in the eights

A performance of 8.61 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mike Themsen

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Elies Mahmoud

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Nikolas Dyhr rescues a point for Randers

It needed Nikolas Dyhr to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Hobro, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Erik Marxen 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 Erik Marxen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

16 Edition

The Randers Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Mike Themsen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Randers refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 27 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.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Lucas Lissens shuts the door

Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Wessel Dammers shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nothing got past John Björkengren

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Match

Randers get the job done against FC Nordsjaelland

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

Squad

Sabil Hansen signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sabil Hansen and Randers agree another 5 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Laurits Pedersen

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Laurits Pedersen, and the manager let it.

In brief

15 Edition

The Randers Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Wessel Dammers

Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Oliver Højer is the real thing at 19

A season average of 7.02 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Randers know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Player ratings

John Björkengren shuts the door

Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Oliver Højer

Marked 9.00 — 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.

Match

Oliver Højer sends Randers past Brondby

It finished 1‑0, and it was Oliver Højer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Randers.

Player ratings

Lucas Lissens shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Loan watch

Sebastian Bangshof has seen enough of OB

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

Squad

Rato signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rato and Randers agree another 3 years.

In brief

14 Edition

The Randers Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lucas Lissens puts it in writing

“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 Randers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Warren Caddy’s goal not enough for Randers

Warren Caddy scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to FC Copenhagen, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Warren Caddy in the eights

A performance of 8.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Mike Themsen gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

107% of the income goes out in wages at Randers

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Ousseynou Seck runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Thibault Klidjé leaves them behind him

Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Squad

Elies Mahmoud loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Elies Mahmoud. Randers will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief

13 Edition

The Randers Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Paul Izzo

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Squad

Mike Themsen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mike Themsen commits to Randers for another 5 years.

Player ratings

Ousseynou Seck runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Thibault Klidjé sends Randers past OB

It finished 2‑1, and it was Thibault Klidjé’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Randers.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Thibault Klidjé

Marked 8.85 — 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Daniel Høegh

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Høegh, and the manager let it.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Amin Al-Hamawi’s exile

5 goals in 11 games at Stromsgodset — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Randers updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market

Kevin Martínez joins Randers on a free

No fee and no drama: Kevin Martínez has signed at Randers, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

12 Edition

The Randers Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for John Björkengren

Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Ernest Agyiri: 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.” Randers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Lucas Lissens in the eights

A performance of 9.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Randers get the job done against SonderjyskE

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Elies Mahmoud

Marked 8.53 — 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.

Squad

Laurits Pedersen 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.

Player ratings

Ousseynou Seck runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A first senior shirt for Mads Søndergaard

Every debut is a small story about the future: Mads Søndergaard, 19 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.

In brief

11 Edition

The Randers Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jannich Storch keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Randers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Wessel Dammers 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.

Loan watch

Sebastian Bangshof has seen enough of OB

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

Squad

The manager makes an example of Erik Marxen

“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 ratings

Nobody could get near Elies Mahmoud

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

A bad afternoon for Randers against AGF

0‑1 to AGF, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

10 Edition

The Randers Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lucas Lissens asks to leave Randers

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

Squad

Wessel Dammers in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Erik Marxen

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ousseynou Seck

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Wages eat 158% of everything Randers earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Wessel Dammers

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

No hiding place for Frederik Lauenborg

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frederik Lauenborg, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Thibault Klidjé keeps on missing

Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Match

Randers and Aalborg cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Aalborg came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

In brief

9 Edition

The Randers Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Mike Themsen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Paul Izzo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for John Björkengren

Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Wessel Dammers

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.40, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Randers find a way past Esbjerg

Esbjerg made Randers work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Thibault Klidjé

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.74, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Daniel Høegh

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Wessel Dammers finally opens his account

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

Squad

Elies Mahmoud has taken the shirt

At 25 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Randers are won quietly and lost loudly.

In brief

8 Edition

The Randers Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Paul Izzo

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Elies Mahmoud in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Oliver Højer

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Paul Izzo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Izzo, and the manager let it.

Match

Randers come up short against FC Midtjylland

FC Midtjylland left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

The one thing Thibault Klidjé could not do

Shots: 14, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Squad

Frederik Lauenborg 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 Frederik Lauenborg trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Victor Gustafsen

A mark of 5.79 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Loan watch

Amin Al-Hamawi keeps scoring at Stromsgodset

6 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

In brief

7 Edition

The Randers Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

John Björkengren shuts the door

Defensive actions: 32, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Wessel Dammers

Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

Erik Marxen shuts the door

Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match

8 unbeaten for Randers

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

Squad

Paul Izzo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Warren Caddy

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch

Sebastian Bangshof has seen enough of OB

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

Match

Randers and Viborg cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Viborg came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market

The Wessel Dammers talk will not go away

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

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6 Edition

The Randers Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lucas Lissens asks to leave Randers

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ousseynou Seck

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

7 unbeaten for Randers

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

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Paul Izzo 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Thibault Klidjé

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Randers get the job done against Hobro

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Oliver Højer

Marked 8.23 — 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 124% of everything Randers earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Player ratings

John Björkengren shuts the door

Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

5 Edition

The Randers Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Oliver Jones hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Randers can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ousseynou Seck

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Randers get their man

The chase for Rody de Boer ended with $220.0K changing hands and Aalborg out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Erik Marxen in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Randers do not lose

6 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.

Market

Randers sell Mert Demirci for $160.0K

Mert Demirci has left for AGF in a $160.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Player ratings

One of those days for Oliver Højer

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.98, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

One of those days for Thibault Klidjé

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Randers and FC Nordsjaelland take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

4 Edition

The Randers Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Randers through in the cup

A 2‑0 win over Esbjerg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Ousseynou Seck runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Max Albæk shuts the door

Defensive actions: 31, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market

Randers say no — this time

The offer from FC Midtjylland for Lucas Lissens 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.

Market

Mert Demirci hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Randers can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Erik Marxen 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Noah Shamoun

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.97, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Daniel Høegh 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Warren Caddy

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.46, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

3 Edition

The Randers Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Elies Mahmoud runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

John Björkengren shuts the door

Defensive actions: 30, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Paul Izzo keeps Randers in it on his own

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

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Lucas Lissens

Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Paul Izzo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Randers sell Musa Touré for $690.0K

Musa Touré has left for Viborg in a $690.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Lucas Lissens 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.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Wessel Dammers

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Match

No goals between Randers and FC Copenhagen

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

In brief

2 Edition

The Randers Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lucas Lissens puts it in writing

“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 Randers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Wessel Dammers stays put

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

Squad

Paul Izzo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Randers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Ousseynou Seck runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Esbjerg join the queue for Benjamin Örn

Add another name to the list: Esbjerg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Benjamin Örn. The answer from Randers has not changed — yet.

Squad

No hiding place for Paul Izzo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Izzo, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Lucas Lissens

Marked 8.63 — 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.

Match

Randers and OB take a point apiece

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

Squad

Wessel Dammers 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 Wessel Dammers trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

1 Edition

The Randers Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Randers say no — this time

The offer from KuPS for Amin Al-Hamawi 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.

Squad

Paul Izzo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paul Izzo commits to Randers for another 3 years.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for John Björkengren

Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Randers

Paul Izzo 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.

Market

Esbjerg join the queue for Martin Sjølstad

Add another name to the list: Esbjerg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Sjølstad. The answer from Randers has not changed — yet.

Match

Randers get the job done against SonderjyskE

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

Player ratings

One of those days for Thibault Klidjé

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Wessel Dammers

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Frederik Lauenborg gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief