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Market1 Jan 2027
Iver Fossum 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 Rosenborg can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2027
Felix Horn Myhre wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Brann hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Niklas Fuglestad has his answer from Viking; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 1 appearances for Haugesund.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Sarpsborg 08
Michael Opoku was marked 7.24 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Dec 2026
“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.
Market1 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Emil Ødegaard
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emil Ødegaard will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KFUM Oslo the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Bodo/Glimt player marked 7.92, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Fredrikstad man
Oskar Øhlenschlæger averaged 8.03 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Dec 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
A productive month at Fredrikstad — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 goals in 2 appearances for Bodo/Glimt, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Aimar Sher up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Sarpsborg 08 — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
A productive month at Fredrikstad — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Mathias Dyngeland named among the month's best — 7.64
2 appearances at that mark for Brann. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.
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Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Bodo/Glimt have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Marked 7.55 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Bodo/Glimt have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
6.82 across the month and 0 goal contributions from a Molde player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Nov 2026
“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.
Market1 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sarpsborg 08 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
The division’s top provider is Sondre Sørli — 7.70
2 assists across the month from a Sarpsborg 08 player marked 7.70. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Sondre Sørli is the division's best-marked player — 7.70
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.70 across 4 matches for Sarpsborg 08.
Market1 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bodo/Glimt heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Ole Selnæs up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Rosenborg — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 goals in 4 appearances for Rosenborg, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 goals in 4 appearances for Rosenborg leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 2 appearances for Kristiansund.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Isak Määttä is the division's player of the month — 7.65
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Bodo/Glimt man on 7.65 with 3 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Young player of the month: Jalal Abdullai — 7.29
7.29 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Molde player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Oct 2026
“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.
Market1 Oct 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Magnus Bech Riisnæs had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Oct 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Molde they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The division’s top provider is Isak Määttä — 7.65
2 assists across the month from a Bodo/Glimt player marked 7.65. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Isak Määttä is the division's best-marked player — 7.65
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.65 across 3 matches for Bodo/Glimt.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Ieltsin Camões up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Tromso — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for Sarpsborg 08, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Mustapha Isah up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Kristiansund — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 5 appearances for Kristiansund.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Martin Vinjor is the division's player of the month — 7.44
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a KFUM Oslo man on 7.44 with 5 goal contributions.
Market1 Sep 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dinamo Bucharest had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Kristiansund
Wilfred George was marked 7.03 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Rosenborg have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Sep 2026
The offer from Club Brugge for Patrick Berg 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.
Market1 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Henrik Bjørdal
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Henrik Bjørdal will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Viking the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody made more than Martin Vinjor this month
3 assists, 7.44, and a KFUM Oslo player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Romano Postema is the division's best-marked player — 7.79
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 7.79 across 2 matches for Viking.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 goals in 3 appearances for Stromsgodset, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 in 5 for KFUM Oslo. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
5 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Market1 Aug 2026
Patrick Berg wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bodo/Glimt hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Market1 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Jakob Haugaard's contract
5 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.