Marked for Welinton Júnior
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Market2 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Jørgen Bøe
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jørgen Bøe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalesund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Anders Klynge 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Aalesund support went home talking about one name.
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Upbeat
Match24 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Haugesund, and it could have been more.
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Erik Frøysa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Erik Frøysa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Aalesund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Aalesund right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Elias Hagen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.44 — 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.25 — 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
18 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Facundo Bailó
“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.
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Steady
Market19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aalesund may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Anders Klynge 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Elias Hagen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Aalesund are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for Aalesund, 1‑0 the final word against Lillestrom in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Anders Klynge 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Rosenborg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Welinton Júnior would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Welinton Júnior is living that version at Aalesund, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jørgen Bøe has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Welinton Júnior and Aalesund agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Eirik Holmen 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kristoffer Nessø, and the manager let it.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Aalesund, another week without a signature from Gaute Vetti.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Kristoffer Nessø’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
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Market
Jørgen Bøe is free to find somewhere else
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Market
Experience through the door at Aalesund