“We have ambitions not to be the middle club, but to be able to go straight from us to the top five leagues – Hákon Valdimarsson is a good example of that. I’m sure Terry will have a long and good career outside Sweden, but we are confident that he will play for Elfsborg next year as well. He hasn’t even played a full season for Elfsborg yet. At the same time, everyone knows that things can happen very quickly in this business.”

Fullkrug claim

One West Ham source has claimed that West Ham’s summer signing Niclas Fullkrug is unsettled in England and could push for an exit in January. The German has had a frustrating time with the Hammers so far, struggling with injury throughout his time at the club.

A source has told Claret and Hugh that his injury, contrary to reports, will not require surgery, but they also indicated that Fullkrug is not yet settled in England, and that the Hammers have some work to do to get him settled in and happy.

Malacia speaks on long spell out

Manchester United defender Tyrell Malacia has been speaking ahead of his potential return after spending more than a year out with a knee injury. “I have a lot of patience but, in this process, I learned that I have more patience than every other person in the world at this moment,” Malacia told The Athletic. “We had a lot of injuries and my injury needed a lot of attention. So with the medical part, at some point we decided, ‘OK, you need some extra people around you to help you, to be there working with you every day to focus only on you’.

“I had to start my rehab over (after his second operation), basically. I had one day to be disappointed and then I had to be like, ‘OK, we go again’. At the end of the day, we want to do everything right, at the right time. We don’t want to rush into things. It is going well, very well, now – step by step. Maybe it went a little bit too quickly before, so we’ve learned from that.

“I think at the end of the day, everything I did, even if it was a mistake or something, I won’t even see it as a mistake because it’s a lesson. I think everything in life is already written for me. I had to go through this whole process to be where I’m at now, so I wouldn’t do anything different. Of course, I’ve had some moments where I was like, ‘Oh, I’m getting tired of this’. But there’s no way I could ever give up. It’s not my system, it’s not in our family.”