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Transfers, European Qualification & 5 Rounds Of Superliga Action w/ Kasper Pedersbæk & Casper De Linde
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Joined by Casper De Linde (@casperdelinde) & Kasper Pedersbæk (@kasperpeders) we reflect on a busy summer of transfers, including moves for Gustav Isaksen, Håkon Haraldsson and Ernest Nuamah, as well as a number of key arrivals, European qualification and the first 5 rounds of Superliga action. Tons to digest so buckle up and enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction & Technical Glitch
00:00:08
Speaker
This is Danish Dynamite, the SuperLiga podcast, brought to you by footballindemark.com. Welcome to Danish Dynamite, the SuperLiga podcast. And when I first recorded this, I said, it feels like ages since I last did a podcast. And that's probably because it was, but actually it feels like about half an hour ago because I forgot to, I forgot to press the record button. We've been talking for half an hour. And then I realized, you realize you were an idiot.
00:00:36
Speaker
So yeah, welcome to Danish Diner Mike.
Guests Introduction & Denmark Trip Recap
00:00:38
Speaker
I've got my two guests here to talk through a ton of stuff over the last month. I've got Casper de Linde and Casper Pedder's back and I've just come back from a trip to Denmark where I actually met Casper de Linde for the first time, which was a pleasure and an honor. How was it for you? It was brilliant. We had good fun for two days and
00:00:58
Speaker
I got out and had a few beers with permission from my wife, so all in all, a good trip.
Transfer Window Highlights
00:01:04
Speaker
You were slightly shorter than I imagined. Yeah, exactly. That's the way. In real life, that's just it. Lovely stuff. So I thought that we'd kick things off with a bit of a
00:01:15
Speaker
a bit of a round robin of some of the transfer action given that quite a lot has happened in the transfer window. Still got a week left where we've all got Farzam's tweet notifications on looking for looking for information but there's been some pretty big dealings in the super league and I thought that I'd start with with Casper P's Bromby who
00:01:34
Speaker
shipped out two players who have been quite big players for them. Anis Ben Slimani off to Sheffield United in the Premier League and Mads Hermanson off to Leicester in the Championship. What do you make of those two moves Kasper?
00:01:47
Speaker
It was an impressive move for Ms. Hermansen. Also in mind, he's been playing first key for Point B for like two years and having quite a development during that time. And also impressive move going to the English Championship playing for Leicester, which for me is a club that, yeah, huge favorites to go up again. So I'm impressed by the transfer and also important for Point B to make a big sale for one of their own masterclass academy players.
Super Liga to European Clubs: A Trend?
00:02:17
Speaker
Where does he rank in the sort of the pantheon of great keepers that you've had at Bromby? How does he compare to, for example, the goalkeeper when you won the gold medal, Marvin Schwab? Marvin Schwab, he was a German player coming from Köllen, as far as I remember. No, I don't even remember. Leipzig, I don't remember where he came from. And then he transferred back to Köllen after his time in point B.
00:02:45
Speaker
So he's kind of, you know, he played an important bit for the championship team. Obviously he did. But for me, it's, it's, Swabe is not one of the, you know, biggest. He played a huge part of the championship, but he's not one of, you know, the players to, to remember. Hamilton obviously is up there because he was developed in point B and transferred out of point B. So he's up there, but yeah.
00:03:11
Speaker
Also, yeah, as I said, he's one of the masterclass players who came through the ranks. You've also been lucky, Kasper, right? Because you've had a lot of good goalkeepers if you look over the last 10 years, so there's quite a few to benchmark against. Yeah, because it's a good resume, goalkeeper resume point. They might not have the best record of outgoing transfers and masterclass, you know, the academy players.
00:03:36
Speaker
But if you just take specifically the goalkeepers, they've done quite well for a lot of years now, transferring out some great players for that position. Yeah, and what about Slimani? Is he a player who you think can sort of hang at that level, the Premier League level? I was surprised that he went to the Premier League, but maybe I'm a little bit biased. After the last season, he played for point B, the last part of the season.
00:04:05
Speaker
especially after the World Cup, where he definitely hasn't performed as well as he did during both the championship season and the season after. But, hey, he got the chance, he has the physique, he's strong, he has some great skills on the ball. So, yeah, he's a good presser. So, yeah, he got the chance and maybe I'm a little biased because I got to know Slimane in person when he was in Bournemouth.
00:04:33
Speaker
But I'm glad that he got the chance for the move and now he just has to grab his chance and try his best to see if he can make a name of himself in England. And I'm also a little bit surprised that he's
Jan Bizek's Move to Inter Milan
00:04:48
Speaker
already had his debut. He played 10 minutes in the first game. So that's at least a good start to his career in the Premier League.
00:04:58
Speaker
Yeah, and I think that combination of, you know, when he's at his best, that technique, that close control, that awareness on the ball combined with that physique and strength, I think that's a heavy combination. And I think that if he can harness that, I think he can definitely be, you know, he can definitely be a key performer for them. But the question is, it's so hard given the level from the Super League to the Premier League. It's so hard to make that assessment. Victor Christensen, for example,
00:05:25
Speaker
was, you know, one of the, if not the best fullbacks in the league, in the super leaguer. And, you know, he's, I think, third choice at less than our fourth choice. Yeah. And if Schulmane is able to do the things he did, especially in the championship season, he's excellent at progressing the ball up the field. Then, Schulmane has got himself a good box-to-box midfielder.
00:05:51
Speaker
But if they think they have got this deep running, speedy attacking midfielder, they got it all wrong. So I hope they use him at the right position. I hope they use him deep at midfield where he can progress the ball from the defense up the field and find more pacey players running the wing or running deep behind the defense. That's where you get the best out of Schwan. Absolutely.
00:06:16
Speaker
And, you know, as I was looking through some of the top outgoings for the super leaguer, what kind of struck me was just the, the stature of some of the teams that these guys are being sold to now, you know, it used to be the case that players from the super leaguer would, would go to Holland or would go to Belgium first and then get picked up if they, if they performed at that level. But we're seeing players go straight to the top. And a perfect example of that is Jan Bissette, who I think was in all of our team of the seasons. And so no surprise that he was getting sold, but he's gone to Inter in Serie A.
00:06:45
Speaker
reasonable fee for a centre-backs. I think it was about seven million. But that's an amazing move for him. And I think you said that he's already made his debut, Kasper. Yeah, he made his debut. And I think there's a bit of a theme for some of the players who have left the Superleaker this year. I think a lot of them display a lot of these
00:07:05
Speaker
attributes that top teams in Europe are actually looking for, and we'll probably run through some of them in a bit, but Bizek displays, I mean, he's strong, he's fast, he can cover wide areas on himself, he's good at progressing the ball at his feet, he's good at passing through the line, so he's good on set pieces as well. I think he has a lot of very, very strong attributes, and of course
00:07:30
Speaker
It's going to be a little bit of a similar story. Let's see how good he is when he needs to pick it up a level. But for the Super League, he was a superstar.
00:07:43
Speaker
And I think it will help him somewhat that he's going to a top team. You know, Slimani
FC Copenhagen's Transfer Success
00:07:47
Speaker
is going to have 38 games in the season that are, that, you know, he's on the, he's on the side of the underdogs. Whereas I think it will be the opposite for Bizek. And I think that so often last season, Bizek had the freedom to go forward and contribute in the, in the attacking phase. And I think that there's a good chance he'll be able to do that at Inter.
00:08:05
Speaker
I completely agree. And in addition, you can also see Egev this season has struggled a little bit. They've had to move their back line a little bit backwards. And the reason for that is they no longer have the same pace element. And that also makes it extremely attractive at Inter for BESEC because they will be able to play with a high line in.
00:08:25
Speaker
I don't know who his competitors are in Inter, but that is for sure an attribute that is coming in strong for a team if they want to press high.
00:08:43
Speaker
The FIFA, Isaacson was around 15 million euros, which I think was kind of expected. But the FIFA Haroldson was even more about 17 million euros. And I think that caught a few people by surprise, just because I think that's a record sale for FC Copenhagen. And although he's clearly a very talented player, I think he was he was sort of played in multiple positions last season and perhaps didn't have his best season, if it would be fair to say that. I think it's I think it's very fair to say, I think Haalsson
00:09:13
Speaker
came in a little bit short because Cornelius went injured and he had to play false nine for a while, which wasn't his absolutely best position. But he is again, one of the best pressing players in the Superleaguer for quite a while. And again, that is also an attribute that is very, very important at
Danish Transfer Market Dynamics
00:09:33
Speaker
top tier level. So he works well in confined spaces, he links up well,
00:09:38
Speaker
so even though he didn't have his best season there was still a ton of potential and I think he's done pretty well here in the
00:09:45
Speaker
in the pre-season games as well. There was a hat-trick. And I think we can see Haalsson with a pretty steep development from here. He's a bit of a fun character because if you ask everyone else, then Ebsiko Meigenfeinz, I don't think too many people actually admire him. But if I could pick one player from Ebsiko's team last season that could play in Ebsiko Neuschland this season, he would have been my player.
00:10:07
Speaker
Wow. Kasper P, what do you make of these two players? Do you think they're both on a sort of similar trajectory? As Kasper said, Harlesund, he's difficult to put into a box because what is he? What is his best position? What is he best at? I think you're in a transfer like that. And also, if we talk about him in a moment, about Ernest Nohama,
00:10:32
Speaker
It's a lot about the fear of missing out for the clubs who buys them. It's a fear of missing out for this, for talents who are young and have shown a unique skill set that has to do a lot of it. I think Haalz and once he's set in Dyl,
00:10:50
Speaker
he will he will improve and be a lot better and you can get a more specific output from him you know if you're not for example if he's a striker he output as goals midfielder in maybe assist something like that so once he's he's fully integrated and gotta get the position a little that's where you get the most out of him. And then Isaksson right he he played really well in these European games against
00:11:15
Speaker
against Nacho, so that probably made him go on the list, and it's going to be interesting to see how his capabilities will fit. I mean, he's pacey, he likes working wide, he likes cutting into the field and shooting, and probably going to be a bit less space in Italy than there is in the Superleaguer, but let's see. I would have higher hopes for Halsson than I would for E-Saxon.
00:11:38
Speaker
Yeah. I think the interesting thing about Isaacson is that he really, um, his development really kind of increased when Anders Dreier left and he became the main man. Obviously at Lazio, he's not going to be the main attacking player. He's going to, you know, he's not going to get the ball as much as he did at Michelin. So there's that to factor in, but on the plus side, he's going to be playing under Maurizio Sarri. And I think that can go, can go one way or the other because you either love him or hate him stylistically.
00:12:06
Speaker
but I'm intrigued to see how that goes. And I thought it was interesting when he got unveiled at Lazio, their unveiling video was basically just a highlights reel of him tearing Lazio apart.
00:12:18
Speaker
So yeah, so that's going to be that's going to be interesting. But the most sizable transfer is I don't think the ink is quite yet on the contract, but there's a there's very strong indications that Ernest Nwama is going to be an Olympic Lyon player before
Brøndby's Transfer Challenges
00:12:32
Speaker
the end of the week. And the talk is that that's going to be a fee of I think it's 23 million euros with with bonuses on top, which would be
00:12:40
Speaker
not only a Super League record, but a record for Leon. What that says in terms of the value that a Super League player can be sold for after one season in the league, I think that shows the health of the league and it shows that these teams are no longer kind of waiting. As Kasper said, you know, there is a bit of fear of missing out. And I think with Nuama, there was talk about PSG, there were talk about Premier League clubs getting interested. And I think that kind of hype around him definitely has helped. But I mean, what an incredible feat.
00:13:08
Speaker
Yeah, the days, by the way, where, you know, a player had to perform well for maybe two, three seasons before he got himself a transfer out of the super leaguer, a big move. And that would be maybe what would be considered a sideways move today to maybe Holland or Belgium. Those days are longer now.
00:13:26
Speaker
One season where Nuama tear things apart and the scouts could see a player who could create for himself as well as his teammates. Then one season is one season almost too many to see him play. So I understand and also it underlines my point by saying that the fear of missing out. I understand why the clubs are making the moves now because
00:13:51
Speaker
Yeah, when you see a player like that, it's about hitting the buy button. How much of that transfer fee and the fact that it was only one season, how much of that do you think is down to the track record that the FC Neuzhland and Right to Dream have built up and the fact that other players have gone for big money and continued to show improvement and the fact they could cut it at a higher level?
00:14:12
Speaker
I think there's one very big Astridz that needs to be put in here. He only played one season in Ebsenoshland because he's African and you can only join as an African to Europe when you turn 18. So if Ernest Nueva had been Danish, he would have been playing from he was 16 is my assumption. So I think that is a bit of this very quick sell-off and you will see that with a lot of the African players in general.
00:14:38
Speaker
that they don't stick around in Ebsi Neuschland for too long time before they leave. And then the second part is then of course the track record builds up a story because in Ebsi Neuschland they have played people from very young age, but they've also had an extremely talented group of youngsters. So when you have a talented group of youngsters and they tend to deliver when they leave, it's also easier to make the next sale.
00:15:06
Speaker
So we talked about FC Norjaland, FC Co and FC Michelin all doing, you know, in recent times, big transfers, you know, 15 million plus Euro transfers. There's a big team who's notably absent from that conversation, which is Bronby.
00:15:21
Speaker
And I always go back to that, that Jesper Lindstrom sale, clearly the best or second best player in the league that season, and he only went for 6.5 million euros. Kasper, what is it about Gromby's setup that means that you're not getting double digit fees for these guys?
00:15:37
Speaker
Of course a lot of the things has to do with the lack of a track record for big sales and these young guys for many years. One view has been kind of one of the big ocean ships, ocean container ships sailing without a direction, which also meant that there was no destination for how to play, how to put things up in the club, how to structure things. And it's funny because
00:16:05
Speaker
The situation where Jesper Lindström and Martin van Doppe and all these players, they broke through. It was on the back of a season where Kasten Wijensen, the football director in Brandepe, he had to sell a lot of the big prolific players in Brandepe, Wilczek, Mucza and all the players from the almost championship season in 2018.
00:16:31
Speaker
And because of, at the time, a bad economy, they couldn't afford to bring in new guys. So a lot of the spots were up for, yeah, for the grab, which led to Jesper Lindstrom having this run in the first team.
00:16:49
Speaker
BONPU needs to improve how to manage the club, how to run things in the club because they've been running bad for so long. So, you know, if it takes a certain amount of time to, you know, put things into a wrong direction, it maybe takes four times, yeah, that time to bring it right again. And that's the process BONPU are right in the middle of.
00:17:14
Speaker
But, you know, and this could really call for a special podcast, special about one because there's also some strategic maneuvers right now with the new ownership that, well, to be, let's put it the way that it hasn't been addressed well enough at the moment.
00:17:32
Speaker
And so if we're looking at some of the transfers in, talk me through some of the Brumbi business. I know that Jakob Rasmussen came in, you know, a guy with great pedigree, you know, he's played in in Seriaf Empoli, Fiorentina, he's played for Firenord in the Eredivisi.
00:17:47
Speaker
He's 26. You don't often get a player who's played at that level coming back to the Superleaguer at 26, a considerable fee for him. But then on top of that, there was Emmanuel Yoboa, a striker, Mateus Kowalsik, Yuto Suzuki, Justin Che, Patrick Pence, the goalkeeper from Bialevakuzin. There hasn't been a shortage of business, but it does feel, like you say, slightly scattergun approach.
Brøndby's Strategic Outlook
00:18:11
Speaker
Yeah, if you look at the transfers in a way where you say, okay, where's this proven quality where you get a proven player? It's only Agabassman who's on that list. It's not that I find the other players bad signings, but with the strategy not being addressed seen from the outside at the club,
00:18:31
Speaker
is running a little bit loose right now where fans are complaining about DC foreign young players coming to 1p and the problem is well the challenge is that they are actually not you know it's not that they are there's no perspective in those players
00:18:46
Speaker
but one who needs to address them, they need to address the perspective and they need to talk about why these players have been brought in instead of standing in the situation right now where fans are frustrated and especially after the Justin Che transfer from where he came from Dallas.
00:19:04
Speaker
And then he was loaned out to Otto Den Haag, a Dutch second division club, shortly after. It's a club who's also in the multi-club ownership group of Wannbue. And that's not making the fans in Wannbue heavy right now. If I may jump in here, I completely back that it's about strategy. And I think if you look at all the players going out and all the players being sold, what is the one truth for all of them?
00:19:30
Speaker
It's the amount of games, it's the amount of goals they've played as a teenager. And Bronby just simply don't have a lot of spots as it is right now to bring these forward. And then Bronby can of course always hover around the third spot and then win one championship in 20 years or whatever the numbers are.
00:19:49
Speaker
But it's very clear in Denmark, if you need people to leave the league for big fees, you need a lot of minutes as a teenager and a lot of goals. And when you look at the full list of Brandeau, the only player in top 10 throughout the Superleaguer history is Frélic Hulch, who played in 2012, basically.
00:20:12
Speaker
Yeah, and to mention him, it's also important to mention that he wasn't a good player. He was an average Super League player, but at the time he played at a point with team where there was open spots because they were basically having a poor quality in the squad.
00:20:28
Speaker
So yeah, I completely agree with about that. And as I usually say, if you want to make a big sale for a teenager in the Danish Super League, they have to have like around 75 games turning maybe 19 years old. Yeah.
00:20:43
Speaker
I echo it completely. It's there's no doubt there's two ways of making money in Denmark. It's either finishing in the top of the league, which means that you go to Europe or you need to have interesting sales items on your on your balance sheet. And and I think that is where a bumpy strategy is is lacking a lot, especially now when FC Copenhagen is catapulting forward in terms of sales. And if it's not done it for a while, which one's done for a while,
00:21:13
Speaker
You can see Obie coming from behind now, playing a lot of teenagers as well. Other clubs are moving, and Von B is trying to, but as Kasper wants to put it, it's a very big ship. I see resemblance towards Manchester United as well. They're probably overspending a little bit in terms of money, but they don't really know what they want or what they need. And then some are good and some are bad, and that will define how the season ends up.
00:21:41
Speaker
and not quite taking a decision whether to go for the, let's call it, top of the league strategy or the young guy's strategy. Instead, from my perspective, they risk facing a situation where they put themselves between two chairs
00:22:01
Speaker
between the strategy of bringing in experienced quality players in order to go finish for the top or playing and developing young guys like, for example, Aska Svata right now. So for me, it's really important that they take a decision whether to go for one thing or the other. Because right now, if you look at the spots at the team,
00:22:27
Speaker
it's quite when I say old team it's not that they are a 30 plus team but if you look at the the players and yeah looking away from the goalkeeper situation right now where it's a 39 almost 40 years old goal key right now until pens probably plays it's it's guys who's 22 23 maybe 24 5 6 and also 28 years old there's
00:22:53
Speaker
Hardly any teenagers around the squad right now. It's basically Oskar Svaatau is one of the only ones and that's where they need to take a decision and that's where they need to get rid of all the average quality non-selling items in the squad.
00:23:12
Speaker
Tell me whether you think this is fair, but I was thinking that it feels to me like there's only really FC Nordsland and FC Copenhagen who go into a season with what seems like a plan in their heads of, right, we're going to keep this player until such and such time and then we sell them. So like it always felt to me like Ernest Neuama, for example.
00:23:33
Speaker
was going to be played through last season, sold this summer. It felt to me like FC Copenhagen, you know, at the point where they sold Mohammed Darami, that felt like it was part of the plan. At the point where they sold Victor Christensen, it felt like it was part of the plan. Whereas I'm seeing rumours for Chris Garden at the moment, it doesn't feel to me like that's part of Gromby's plan to sell him at this
00:23:53
Speaker
at this point in time, feels like his value would be much higher at the end of a season where he's got double digit goals, whatever it might be. But if he ends up going, I think that he's going to be another player who might go for less than he's worth.
Midtjylland's Transfer Timing Strategy
00:24:07
Speaker
I think I think it's fair enough. I think there's a few more teams that needs to be mentioned in similar style. If so much land and it's a co making. I think it's image land has for a lot of years proven to be extremely good at selling at the right time and place. Um, I know they had a bit of an off season last season, but they have been very clear on the strategy. And then we have a few of these, you can say slightly lower tier teams, but a team like silica ball has also been very good at selling at the right time and place as I see it. Okay.
00:24:37
Speaker
There were a few transfers from within the league. Lucas Hye obviously arrived at FC Nordsland from Loongby. And Elias Osiuri moved from Veyborg to FC Copenhagen. Two players who I think showed last season what they could do. And two of the kind of bigger teams, I've seen an opportunity to bring them in for, you know, relatively low fees, I think. What do you guys make of those two transfers? If I can start with Lucas Hye. I was a little bit surprised to see this transfer and I was a bit surprised
00:25:06
Speaker
for two reasons. I think I've been taking a little bit by surprise about how different if the Northland strategy actually is this season. So normally we would be in a spot where we would sell off the best players and then we would bring someone up from below. But it seems like now with more money in on the owner side that we're now starting to invest. So in that sense, I think the transfer made
00:25:32
Speaker
made sense, even though it was a surprising element because there's no doubt he is no Nagalo when you compare them in terms of stats and numbers. But on the other side, he was a very big part of the great escape in Lungbu. So hopefully he'll be able to learn what he needs in a short time span to be a part of this team. So it's a very symbolic transfer.
00:25:58
Speaker
for how FC Neuschland has moved within the last few years for me at least. Yeah and I mean I didn't fully appreciate it until this weekend when I went to see both teams but there's a I'm not sure there's quite full-on animosity but there's definitely a rivalry between between FC Neuschland and Loongby so I don't know how many players have made that transfer in recent years but yeah it certainly seemed like that was one that the fans weren't too happy to see happen from a Loongby perspective.
00:26:26
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's fun because there's so much interchangeability between the teams. And I think when I looked at one of the Loombi games the other day, five former FC Norschland players were in the lineup. So as it is right now, then the players that aren't good enough to make it in FC Norschland, quite a few of them actually end up in Loombi. So that's also why it's a bit interesting that so many Loombi fans, they
00:26:51
Speaker
They don't appreciate, well I get why they don't appreciate us because we basically took half a team 20 years ago and that's where it all started, but I'm still a bit surprised about the hatred that I run into from time to time from League of Fains. I don't have the same feelings towards them, but that's maybe also because we are now the big brothers and they are officially the little brothers of the world.
00:27:15
Speaker
Elias Ashuri joined FC Copenhagen from V-Borg. He really hit the ground running last season and was unquestionably one of their top players. And I guess this is just a case of FC Copenhagen flexing their muscles. You know, last summer they came for Christian Sorensen, who was obviously such a key piece of the V-Borg team and picked him up. And they've done it again this summer with Ashuri. And, you know, in the few games that he's played so far, he's looked definitely like one of the biggest threats for FC Copenhagen. So I guess a good move for him.
00:27:43
Speaker
some decent money for V-ball but taking a really top player from them.
00:27:47
Speaker
Yeah, it's very much Bayern Munich transfer. So they pick up the good players from the rest of the league, making competitors weaker and making themselves stronger. And I think it's very fair to say, as you said, that he's been really, really good for FC Copenhagen. I'm a little bit surprised he's been that good, but he's really made an impression from day one. And I think kudos to the transfer team in FC Copenhagen for this move. Impressive.
00:28:13
Speaker
FC Copenhagen, it feels like, have been a homing beacon in recent years for, you know, Scandinavian players who were playing abroad and they've brought them back to Scandinavia.
Prime Players in the Danish Super Liga
00:28:22
Speaker
There was obviously Andreas Cornelius. There was Victor Fischer. I'm sure you can think of some other names.
00:28:30
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, BLN, Okoa, they've had a few and they've been really good at this and it makes sense because if the Copenhagen still pays the biggest paycheck in Denmark and it's the easiest team to win a championship for, they have a great atmosphere in the stadium, even better now. So they very often become the one team that people they tend to go back to.
00:28:55
Speaker
And, you know, they followed that tactic again this summer with, um, uh, El Yunusi and, uh, burger mailing coming in to, uh, Norwegian internationals. And again, they're both guys in their late twenties. So they're not over the hill yet. They're not finished. Uh, and perhaps a sign of what the super league is able to do. You know, earlier in the window, we talked about.
00:29:14
Speaker
Marcus Ingvitson coming to FC Neuzhland again, straight from the Bundesliga, 27 years old. And I think these kind of transfers, you know, Rasmussen to Gromby as well, these are really interesting to me because I think that four or five years ago, guys who were returning to the Super Liga were coming, you know, in, you know, once they'd hit 30 or once they felt like they were over the hill and they couldn't get another move somewhere else. And I don't think that's the case with these guys.
00:29:38
Speaker
No, I think it is definitely moving a bit. The taxation rules in Denmark are liberal, and when it comes to returning or coming in, if you've been away, I think it's 10 years, then you go in on a very decent tax rate, and then on top of the league in itself, it's definitely progressing, so you can actually make a little bit of money in your
00:30:02
Speaker
in your mid-career as well in Denmark.
Bailey Peacock Farrell's Surprising Move
00:30:04
Speaker
Exactly. I've only just become familiar with the taxation rules, but it makes a lot of sense when you look into just the saving that you get after that time period's passed. I guess the transfer that I was most excited about was Bailey Peacock Farrell. This was a transfer. I remember Patrick Monk, shout out Patrick, mentioned this rumor to me earlier in the summer. It was just such a
00:30:27
Speaker
such an out there rumor. A player coming from Burnley, Northern Ireland's number one, being linked with AGF. And it just seemed such a strange transfer to me. And, you know, when I started reading about it, it looked like he was getting offers from championship clubs where he'd be a starter. You think that he's giving that up to come to AGF to experience a new league. And when it happened, I was absolutely delighted just because, you know, to have a player from Northern Ireland in the super leaguer is amazing. And, uh, I've
00:30:54
Speaker
I've been pleasantly surprised by what I've seen, you know, he looks really good on the ball. He's ousted Jesper Hansen, who, let's be honest, was probably one of the best keepers last season in the league. And although maybe not a club legend, I know he's played for lots of teams in Denmark, but he was really one of the sort of captain figures at the club. So I was kind of surprised they brought in a keeper of this level. And I'm kind of surprised that he became the number one almost instantly. But it looks like a good move, albeit quite a ruthless one from Muwei Rosler.
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. I mean, it's one of these players that I don't think a lot of Danish players knew him in advance, but he's played in good clubs, and I think he looks good from the get-go. I think he will still be the second-best Northern Irish goalkeeper that we've had in the league, because Roy Carroll was also there for a while, who did extremely well. But let's see. It's always interesting to get in new nationalities.
00:31:49
Speaker
And having failed to get Jack Wilshire on the podcast, I am going to move heaven and earth to get Bailey Peacock Farrell exclusive interview on the podcast.
Transfer Window Closure Expectations
00:31:57
Speaker
So watch this, watch this face. I'm optimistic, shall we say. So yeah, lots of transfers in and out. As we said, we've got another week of the window and I think all sorts of things can happen. Let's talk about.
00:32:10
Speaker
Camille Grabara. There's talk about Sims here from FC Midgeland that there's lots of players being rumoured. Lots of them will be just that, rumours. But if the past is anything to go by, Deadline Day is always full of drama in the Super League. Are you expecting any big moves at FC Norshland? With Norshland, I'm expecting more out than I'm expecting in. As you said, Nuama is still waiting for the ink to dry up. I still expect Nagalo to leave.
00:32:38
Speaker
And then depending on how the games against Pazisang go, there might also come something in, but I think we need to qualify to make a last attempt to get someone in also. I think it's going to be young spots filling up. So right now it's looking good for FCN and we talked a lot about Bambi today and Bambi still has a few key positions they need to fill up.
00:33:01
Speaker
If they get in impressive players, the dynamics might change again very quickly. So it is going to be very interesting to follow for the next week's Mitchell and also extremely active at the moment. So I don't think they are done at all. So a bit too premature to have a full status on who's the strongest in the league and who's not. But I definitely expect action.
00:33:23
Speaker
Great.
FC Nordsjælland's European Campaign
00:33:24
Speaker
Well, we're going to take just a quick break now. And when we come back, we're going to go through some of the key talking points of the first five rounds of the season. Lots to talk about. So join us after this.
00:33:37
Speaker
Welcome back to Danish Dynamike. And I'm recording this just days after my trip to Denmark, which is always one of the highlights of the season and being able to see some football live. And I'm going to be doing a big write up on the site. So look out for that in the coming days. But quick preview of what went on. I arrived on Thursday, met up with Kasper and we headed down to Farum or up to Farum, I should say, northwest of Copenhagen on the S train and took in FC Norjland against FC SB. I avoided getting beaten up.
00:34:06
Speaker
I was confused for a Romanian FCSB fan at the one bar in town. Kasper came and saved me. And yeah, we saw a very enjoyable game in Fireroom where FC Nordsland really took the game to the opponents in the second half. And I was going to ask you, Kasper, what was your take on that game? Because it felt like
00:34:27
Speaker
It felt like FCSB brought a counter-attacking style that perhaps wasn't expected and caused some problems in that first half with Kian Hansen and Andreas Hansen coming to the rescue. But as the game wore on, it felt like Norjlin really sort of took control. Big call from the coach to take off Ernest Nwarma at halftime, but it turned out to be the right call and two goals from Ingvitson.
00:34:47
Speaker
in the end, sent you guys through, but I'd be really interested in your take on having been out to remain here for the first leg. How was the game, what you expected, and what did you make of the performance?
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah, let's start with the first game. So as I support Ibsen, we're not that many away supporters when we go. We went total like 50, 30 fans and then 20 in the VIP section. And we were picked up by Romanian police. I think they were like 80 policemen, fully armored to bring us to the stadium.
00:35:18
Speaker
And that in itself was just a very very different experience to everything else I've tried until now. But when we played down there, then I didn't get the feeling that this was a good team. We were pretty much in control or we were very much in control until the red card.
00:35:34
Speaker
And even after the red card, we still managed to have control or somewhat control for the last 30 minutes. So my expectations going into the game and farm was that we were the better team, but they took me a bit by surprise. And as you said, they actually delivered a decent first half and they could have scored.
00:35:56
Speaker
But then the game progressed and we got this maybe slightly cheap penalty just before halftime. And then I think it was smooth sailing from there.
00:36:06
Speaker
Coming up this week, you're playing the playoff leg against Partisan Belgrade. And this is a team that has been in Europe for a long, long time, big history in Europe. And yet when I look at the bookies odds, FC Nordsland are significant favorites. So they must know something that we don't, but it looks like quite a good opportunity on paper to make it through to the group stages with just this tie ahead. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I am super surprised because we played them in
00:36:32
Speaker
2018 where we dodged the 5-3 aggregate but it could have been a few goals more. Back then they were a great team but the bookies they often know the market very well and we are pretty big favorites. You need to go all the way back to our 5-1 victory against OB in 2022.
00:36:57
Speaker
to find a similar style of favorites. So it's in 160 now, which means that we should at least then found be good. And then news just came out this morning that Partisan will only have half of the crowd in Belgrade because of some fireworks shows that they pulled off.
00:37:16
Speaker
So all in all, I'm pretty excited going into these games. My expectations are high, but you just you never know with these teams. You never know how they play, who's the star players. Of course, the team in itself has watched a lot of video, but as a fan, it's it's a bit of untouched territory, you can say.
00:37:35
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. And I want all the Danish teams to make it into Europe just because I'm a supporter of the league in general. But in particular, FC Nordsland have a soft spot for. And I think that if they could make it into the group stages, it's such a justification for the way that things are done at FC Nordsland and the whole Right to Dream project. And I think that it would be a fantastic achievement having got the silver medal last season to make it into a European group stage.
00:38:03
Speaker
and hopefully have some glamour ties. I'm really hoping they can come through those two legs and pull it off.
00:38:09
Speaker
Yeah, it would be fantastic. It's going to complicate the league quite a bit if we end up going through because these conference league games, they always play it on a Thursday night in the Super League where we often play on Sundays. So Thursday, Sunday, Thursday, Sunday is going to be tight in a not too broad team.
FC Copenhagen's European Aspirations
00:38:28
Speaker
But I will take a few beatings in the Super League if necessary to be able to go to somewhere exciting in Europe for sure. Yeah, exactly.
00:38:40
Speaker
One team who already have a foot, at least in the Europa League, and potentially in the Champions League is FC Copenhagen. They came through their first leg against the Polish champions last night. And they came through with a 1-0 win. It was gritty. It wasn't a pretty game to watch. But they went away, got the 1-0 win. And they're now obviously favorites to make it through to the group stage. And I think for a second year in a row, that would be a seriously impressive feat.
00:39:09
Speaker
The money and the prestige that comes with that is not insignificant. No, it's hands down. It's impressive if they make it. They played a game Tuesday night where they
00:39:25
Speaker
where they did what they've done a few times now. They came in front early and they managed to keep the Polish team away or somewhat away from goal at least for 90 minutes and a really good spot to qualify and I think they'll make it as well.
00:39:41
Speaker
There's one other team still in Europe. AGF obviously went out early on in the first possible round to club Brueger and that was just a really unfortunate draw for them. Bailey Peacock-Farrell came in in the second leg. I think they kept a clean sheet at home. So they did rescue something in the second leg, but ultimately they weren't
Midtjylland's Domestic Struggles
00:40:00
Speaker
able to progress. But FC Michelin is still in with a chance of a conference league spot. They play Legevorsor, so another Polish team. And I think that one's going to be potentially tricky for them.
00:40:11
Speaker
Yeah, they've had a rocky start to the season. I just saw now that Cho looks like he's out of the game as well. He's the new South Korean striker, who's been looking pretty good from the get-go. But they have a lot of injury issues and they got an unfortunate red card in the start of the Super League as well, where they lost 4-0 to Lin Bui. So I'm also a little bit on the fence here on their chances to go through, I must say.
00:40:38
Speaker
Yeah, and actually, as we move from Europe to talking about the Superleaguer, I wasn't big on FC Michelin before the season started. I know lots of people had them in the top three, and it just didn't seem like that was going to be it for me.
00:40:52
Speaker
And with Gustav Isaksson gone, with Cho injured now for a couple of weeks, the defence is looking a bit shaky. I'm wondering if we can already rule out FC Michelin from a medal position. What do you think? Am I being too hasty? Yeah, I think on a medal position, you're definitely being too hasty, especially because they are looking at
00:41:11
Speaker
big transfers coming in but there's no doubt that they don't look like a football team in control as it is now right now so um so i think uh time will be in their favor here because they still have a relatively new coach and and uh i think let's see what they actually bring in on signings before we we deem them out of the medals uh but i don't think they're gonna win the league let me say it like that
00:41:37
Speaker
I mean, unquestionably. I think I'd bet anything on them not winning the league. But I think the key positions for me, when I look at that team, is they're going to need a winger who can run up players like Gustav Isaacsson and Anders Dreier did. And there's one set at the top of Division 1 at the moment in the form of Alan Souza that seems like a
00:41:58
Speaker
That would seem like an obvious transfer to me, but maybe I'm just maybe that's just wishful thinking. But I feel like they need a player like him who they can give the ball to and who can take people on. I mean, Simpson does that perfectly on the left, but they need more.
00:42:11
Speaker
Yeah, they definitely need more and I think it's a very easy conclusion to make that last year they were very much a one-man army with Isakson, but I also think it's the truth. So no doubt that they're still struggling in setting it up. And Simsia has been a revelation again for Super League standards. He's done really, really well, but I don't think it's enough. So they need to choke back Asap. He needs to continue his level.
00:42:39
Speaker
And then I think Inga Sun that came in in the central defense, he needs to step it up a notch or two. And then I think when you look at it player by player in the central midfield, I think they are really strong, but I just don't think that they dominate the games as they should when you actually look at the names. I'm pretty envious on Martinez, and I also think Giga Beach is a great player, and Old Sun can also do a lot of stuff.
00:43:05
Speaker
So there's a lot of good players in the team, but it's just not clicking completely. And I'm with you. I think they lack a bit of speed and it would be a smart move to put something in on the right side where they can win their 1v1 duels to progress the pitch.
00:43:22
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, if you think back even a few seasons, there was a point where they had Isaksson, Dreyer, Sisto and Mabel, you know, four wingers for two spots, and you didn't lose much quality when you brought one in for another, whereas now you think, you know, chose out and that means
00:43:40
Speaker
two weeks of bromado which is quite a big downgrade I think and you know the same can be said in the wing positions that there's just not the same strength in depth and perhaps it's not sustainable to maintain that kind of strength in depth but it's definitely hurting them.
00:43:55
Speaker
It is.
FC Copenhagen's League Dominance
00:43:56
Speaker
And that's also why they're one big question mark for me right now. I could see them go as low as number seven, but I could also see them shape up when they get their injuries back and they bring in a few players. And then I think Thomas Baer is a very, very skilled coach and he often gets a little bit more out of the teams than the teams actually have quality for. So I think give him time and I think they will bounce back.
00:44:25
Speaker
Okay. Well, watch this space then. We'll see who we can, we can clip this up in 20 weeks time and see which one of us has egg on our face. FC Copenhagen, I think, look, by far the strongest team in the league. No surprise. They're going for a third consecutive title and they've just got so much strength in depth. The thing that we talked about, Mitchell and Lacking.
00:44:46
Speaker
And even when they're not playing well, they're still winning. It feels to me almost an inevitability, which I think isn't great from the perspective of selling the league as a super competitive league. But I just can't see anyone taking the title off them this season. Again, am I being hasty there?
00:45:03
Speaker
Nah, I think if we start by house, the first five games gone. So football is about winning and they've won all the games. So, so kudos to that. But you also mentioned that they haven't been playing really well and you can still see problems in the team, especially when it comes to defending.
00:45:20
Speaker
I think they need to find a solution there. It will most likely happen with getting in a new quality number six. They also just, as you mentioned earlier, got in pure mating on the left-hand side of the defense. So I think they have already
00:45:35
Speaker
moved in on some of the weak spots but i can only echo that they look the strongest they look the broadest when it comes to the team selection i think they need a lot of bad luck and the lack of quality over the season not to run at home looking at the table.
FC Nordsjælland's Title Challenge
00:45:53
Speaker
sat in second place with four wins out of five. The most goals scored and with only FC co-conceding fewer goals is FC Norjland and looking at it without context I think that to me looks like a two-horse race for the title but of course Ernest Nwama is such a big part of that banger hat trick on the first game. I just wondered
00:46:15
Speaker
Can Nuama be replaced? Is Ibrahim Osman going to come in and have a similar impact? Or is his sale going to cost FC Nordschuland? Yeah, so I think if we just leave FC Copenhagen on their own for a second, then I think
00:46:31
Speaker
even selling Nuama they can still potentially be competitive for number two as it is right now but I think Nagalo will also leave potentially and I think he has a lot more impact on the team than Nuama does when it comes to the style of play.
00:46:48
Speaker
So when Nuama leaves, the pace will be on the left, as you mentioned, with Osman already. Of course, a quality dip, but still a similar type of player, so they can build up in the same way. They just need to invert the way they build up.
00:47:03
Speaker
When it comes to Nagello, he's so important in taking the pressure off the team. You can always pass it back to him and he can dribble a man and he can pass it forward. Again, very similar to Jan Bizek in style, just a bit younger, a bit more immature in his style of play still.
00:47:21
Speaker
But we don't have a similar player at all. So there's going to be a lot more pressure on Kian Hansen on the build up. And I think that's going to cost a few points. And then the last part is that Nagelu's speed is so impressive that it also gives us the opportunity to sustain extremely high on the pitch. And Kian Hansen is good at a lot of things, but it's not running with 50 meters to goal when whatever Christ go on or someone else that's Pacey runs at him. So
00:47:51
Speaker
So it's going to have an impact for sure. And then I still think either Diumande or Villasen could still leave, which is again going to take away some of our top quality and it's going to also remove some some broadness to the squad. So I have Evsenosa between the second and the fourth position this season.
00:48:15
Speaker
Yeah, that feels accurate to me. I mean, it is worth saying that I think that the one weak point of FC Norjaland starting 11 last year was the lack of a top quality number nine. Niegrin came in and did a fantastic job, but was never going to be a guy to bang like double figure goals. Similarly, Fagier's spell at the club was pretty disappointing. And I think that obviously this season... He was abysmal. Okay.
00:48:41
Speaker
Yeah, you put it put it a bit more strongly than me. But yeah, so that that wasn't a good move. Whereas this season, Ingvitson has come in and really he's the he's a, you know, star quality number nine. And again, Mads bid strip left that would have left a big hole. But Yep, it's first golf has come in and shown that he can play a really high level in that position. And so I feel like
00:49:01
Speaker
had Nuama stuck around, with that new and improved front line and with Tverskov bolstering that midfield, I think definitely could have been a title challenge. But hey, you never know, stranger things
Emerging Talent at FC Nordsjælland
00:49:11
Speaker
have happened. I think with the mix that you just mentioned, I completely support what you're saying. I think it's worth looking at Deutscheles as well in the central midfield. He might be this season's big revelation when it comes to moving forward.
00:49:28
Speaker
I've seen him outplay the game down in Bucharest where he owned the football field for 47 minutes until he got injured and I saw the preseason game against Red Bull Salzburg where he was also completely dominating the game. So I think if people aren't aware yet, watch out for that young gentleman.
00:49:47
Speaker
Absolutely. And in the fan bar before the game on Thursday, I saw a Dorgula shirt and I saw an Ibrahim Osman shirt. So, you know, even when people are buying shirts, people are looking to be the first with some of these names that are going to become household names in
AGF's League Climb
00:50:01
Speaker
years to come. So I absolutely love that. Yeah, it's brilliant. So I wanted to ask, who do you think is the most likely kind of contender to those teams that we've talked about? Do you think ADF,
00:50:15
Speaker
can sustain something there. They're currently fifth. They haven't looked as strong as they did last season maybe, but it does feel like there's something building there. And with Bailey Peacock Farrell bolstering that the goalkeeper position, maybe that's a kind of slow and steady rise up the table with no European football to have to worry about.
00:50:31
Speaker
Yeah, so I like a game a lot. I think they are tough teams to play. I think when they figured out the defensive line, a new defensive line, I think they will be even stronger. I think to be a speck that came in, came home from Germany, maybe it was Ingolstadt, has already proved to be a quality player. I have them.
00:50:53
Speaker
Let's just call it an inch behind Epson Northland right now for the full season and then I think it's going to be either Barnby or Michelin that's going to shape up and most likely Michelin.
Brøndby's League Performance
00:51:06
Speaker
Interesting. Well, I mean, Bromby currently sat in third with nine points. And if you hadn't looked at the league table and you just listened to Kasper P earlier, who, by the way, has slipped off during the break because he's got work. So thank you to Kasper for joining us for that first bit. And sorry for not saying bye as he slipped out the door. But if you just listened to what he said, I think you'd think that they were in the relegation zone. There's certainly things to be uneasy about for Bromby fans off the pitch. But I think on the pitch,
00:51:36
Speaker
it certainly looks like in the past couple of weeks anyway that they're looking a bit sharper, they're looking like there's a plan and they certainly don't look like they're the kind of easy to beat team that they were at this point of the start of last season.
00:51:50
Speaker
Yeah, so they are definitely trending upwards when you look at big chances created and so on. But I just talked to one of my mates before going on here. And I think the biggest problem with Bobby is that even though they have quite a decent amount of points, they still have the first good game to play. The 1-0 win against Michelin was a horrible football game. It was a very, very good goal, but it was definitely not the way you want to sell the Super League.
00:52:18
Speaker
against Loongbu, they did fine until Loongbu got a red card early in the second half and then they after that created four big chances but until then yeah they were good but they weren't displaying excellent football so I think there's a very big difference when you look at the points that they have collected and then how they've been playing on the pitch so I get the uneasiness and I think the uneasiness is also built up
00:52:47
Speaker
by the fact that some of the strategic leadership before the season said that there would be title contenders this season. And they're not really looking like title contenders at the moment. So, yeah, I fully understand the frustration from Kasper's side. It's so strange, isn't it? Because, OK, with the exception of the goalkeeper position, which is a bit of an unknown, they do have on paper the squad that could be challenges. You know, they've got
00:53:14
Speaker
quality, they've got a nice mix of experience and youth. They've got a number nine who scores goals, which is very important. They've got even guys like Hakon Evian, who's a fantastic player, he's mostly been brought off the bench. Vass is yet to sort of hit the levels we know he can play at. So they've got the squad that can do it. It's just a question of can Jesper Sorensen get the best out of them.
00:53:36
Speaker
I think you're nice towards Barnaby here, I must say. I see it a little bit differently. I see that they have a ballast that is so good that he could play in any team in Denmark. Or he could probably also play in the most of them. But then I think the top quality very quickly falls apart. I think they have too many players that could also play in Obie or
00:54:04
Speaker
albeit that relegated last season.
00:54:07
Speaker
I think it's too wide a squad where too many of the players, they are just at least one level below the highest level that is needed. And I think Jakob Rasmussen brought in, you would see instant impact from a great player. If they bring in three more of those or two more of those, then it might look very differently, but they're not looking like a team and I'm not too impressed by the roster at the moment, I must say.
00:54:34
Speaker
We know from experience that there's never been a season in the Super League where the two promoter teams have gone down.
Randers' Struggles
00:54:41
Speaker
And looking at the table, it looks like if that trend is going to continue, it looks like runners could be in big trouble. They've got the worst goal difference in the league by some distance.
00:54:52
Speaker
They are yet to win a game and I saw them on the weekend. I went to I went to Loongby runners and they weren't terrible, but they definitely weren't threatening. I think there was, you know, a header from Marvin Ego and that was about it. I fear for them a bit this season because they've lost some key players and they don't look like, you know, in seasons gone by, they've struggled to score goals, but they've had defensive solidity, had Patrick Karlgren saving their skin. This season, it looks like the aura might have worn off.
00:55:18
Speaker
Yeah, so the aura has definitely worn off. I don't think it will go as far as they will be relegated, but it is not looking good for them at the moment. And I think the strategic leadership in in Ghana did a smart move the other day. They came out and they said some of this is on us. We
00:55:42
Speaker
thought we would have had more of the right players earlier in the season. We've missed it and we're still bringing in players and the squad will be better. So I hope to see a stronger honest team because it has been for the last five years they have been a very very positive
00:56:04
Speaker
acquaintance in the league.
Viola's Survival Battle
00:56:06
Speaker
But yeah, it's not looking good now and they need to do some more because it's not really working. And the Dutch central defender that they brought in Dessus or something like that, he hasn't proven his value either. So so they need to shave up the squad a little bit to to be more competitive. But I actually think this will be the season where violin goes down. So the two promoted teams they get really good.
00:56:30
Speaker
It's funny that you mentioned Desus because I watched him quite closely on Sunday, and I thought that he had a real presence. He was super vocal, shouting at the back line, organizing them, and he looked like he'd be a real nightmare to play against as a player. Very, very physical, very strong, and made a couple of good last man tackles as well. Based on what I've seen this season, he looks like a solid addition to me, but maybe there was more expected.
00:56:59
Speaker
Yeah, well, I think it's one of these things where maybe already now we see improvement with the Olympic game that I unfortunately didn't see. But there's a lot of pressure on his shoulders. So yeah, maybe here's the man. And it was just a few rough games at the beginning.
00:57:16
Speaker
I wanted to get your opinion on the two promoter teams. Vile, I haven't picked up a point yet. Vior have two draws. But for different reasons, I've been sort of pleasantly surprised by both. When I saw the story of Vior being a part-time team and the whole setup there, I did sort of fear for what we might see for them. But even on the FC Copenhagen game on the weekend,
00:57:35
Speaker
I thought they took the game to them. They had plenty of chances. They certainly weren't played off the park. They've only conceded seven goals. So their problem is they've only scored two, but certainly they haven't looked completely out of place in the league. No, I think that's fair enough. I think they need to become a little bit sharper, as you said, in the penalty boxes in both ends. But I think you can also see that
00:58:00
Speaker
It is a team of semi-pros. They do some weird stuff from time to time. I think the coach is very loyal to his system, going extremely high on FC Copenhagen's wingers is dangerous and they just continue to do that. So they leave a lot of room behind. So maybe it's a little bit too romantic for team promoting, but
00:58:25
Speaker
I think we will see a few surprises through the season, but I don't think they'll be able to cut it. And I know it's early to say in the fifth round, and I said something similar about Lüngbüt last year, right? But let's see. I think they'll have a tough one. When it comes to violin, the program has been very tough also for them. So let's see when they meet more of the teams that they actually need to beat in order to stay up. So I've not discarded them at all yet.
00:58:54
Speaker
But yeah, they also just look they definitely look like one of the weakest sides in the league for sure. Yeah, I agree with that. Although I would say that they've
00:59:04
Speaker
Again, they haven't been overawed in any of the games. A little bit like Loongby at the start of last season. I think they've played reasonably well, but they just haven't got any points. And I think that Vior being able to grind out a couple of draws, I think that those points are so important. You know, you could basically stay up with 20 points. Is that accurate actually? Yeah, I think that's fair enough.
00:59:25
Speaker
Yeah, so two points, you're 10% of the way there already. And I just think that the points at that end of the table are so crucial that if they can just turn some of those losses into draws or eke out a win here and there, that might be enough.
00:59:38
Speaker
Yeah, no doubt. But again, let's see when the schedule changes and Viola gets a bit of the easier teams. I think they play less idealistic than Vilar, which I think is a necessity when you get promoted. So I have more hopes for Viola than I do for Vilar, for sure.
00:59:59
Speaker
Brilliant.
Jakob Nistrup's Coaching Potential
01:00:00
Speaker
Before we go, there was a question I got on Twitter from T-boss who wanted to know just how good a coach is Jakob Nistrup. He's obviously proving himself in Denmark, but does he have a higher ceiling elsewhere in Europe? And I was curious if you'd taken this because when I saw the question, I thought,
01:00:15
Speaker
One of the things that I would normally take into consideration is have they managed in different situations and obviously when he was manager of the board that was something completely different but I think he was he was kind of there at the start of this upsurge we've seen in the board and I think that he's had a really positive effect to FC Copenhagen obviously when he took over from the rope they were in that.
01:00:35
Speaker
not a great place. And so I do kind of feel that he might have what it takes to manage at a higher level. What do you reckon? So I like the way he communicates. I think he's a very, very strong communicator. I think his results on the pitch has been very good. I think it's always very hard to assess coaches up against each other and and who can take the next level. Because if the Copenhagen as boring as it sounds also has
01:00:58
Speaker
the best team and the most expensive team and therefore you expect a lot but there's no doubt he's also overperformed a lot so where does that really put him compared to so many others i would look as much on the character next up as i would look at the pitch results because i think that is where how coaches will also be signed in the future and i think there he's he's at a presence from day one and he's a very good representative of
01:01:26
Speaker
what FC Copenhagen is today, and that is probably where I would hang my hat, because I think it's so hard to assess. I don't see anything in games where I'm like, this is new and this is brilliant, but it's just very, very solid work. And again, not taking anything away from his results, because that has been absolutely impressive from the time he took over from Torb to where we are now.
Wrap Up & Future Content Preview
01:01:52
Speaker
Amazing.
01:01:52
Speaker
I think that wraps it up perfectly. I mean, five rounds of action, lots to talk about. And yeah, really appreciate you giving up your time, Kasper. And I think that we've given it a good go of trying to explain what's been going on. Brilliant. Well, it's always good to be on.
01:02:11
Speaker
And I look forward to the next round. Let's do it again. And yeah, thank you everyone for tuning in. I know it's not quite as regular as it was last season, but hopefully you're still enjoying it. Keep your eyes on the website over the next week. I'm going to do a full write-up of my, my trip to Denmark, which took in the FC Nordschle match. It took in B93 on the Friday, which is a completely unique stadium, unique experience, like just a really, really cool club. And then Lumbi Ranners on Sunday.
01:02:40
Speaker
I was four minutes from experiencing my first ever 0-0 on Danish soil and was bailed out by a dramatic home winner. So that was quite fun to be a part of. So yeah, keep an eye on the site and that's coming there. And I've got a whole bunch of exclusive interviews lined up over the next weeks, months that I hope will keep you entertained. So thanks for listening. Thanks to Kasper Delinde. Thanks to Kasper Pedersbach. And I'll be back next time on Danish Dynamike.