Take it easy on Denis Hamlett
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It may seem petty to re-hash two years after the fact, but Denis Hamlett never actually said he expected an “immediate impact” out of then-newly-signed striker Mathias Jørgensen.
Before embarking on a largely-fruitless two seasons in New York, mostly playing in the reserves before making a quiet loan exit to AGF Aarhus at the end of last year, Jørgensen’s signing was the great hope of an otherwise barren offseason in which the only signings made by the New York Red Bulls had been MLS waiver flyers such as Amro Tarek and Marcus Epps. But what the club hoped would serve as narrative-turning moment of transfer success now lives on as a moment of infamy due not, as commonly thought, to comments by Hamlett himself, but likely due to a headline -
Mathias Jørgensen misses third straight AGF Aarhus match with “minor injury”
Loan stint in Denmark not starting out well for Red Bulls forward
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Danish soccer has resumed following the winter break, but a certain New York Red Bulls-affiliated loanee remains on the sideline.
In advance of the Danish Cup quarterfinal, AGF Aarhus announced Mathias Jørgensen “is on his way back from a minor injury” and would not appear against third-tier opponent Boldklubben AF 1893. There is an air of missed opportunity in being unable to integrate the new signing against a lower league foe. The 20-year-old striker was also not included on the match day roster for the first two Superliga matches of 2021.