Jonas Bruusgaard

Central Midfielder - Mjondalen
13 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jonas Bruusgaard

27 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Øyvind Alseth damages knee ligaments — 83 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 83 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Mjondalen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Mjondalen is running low.

Market

Nickolay Årsbog puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Squad

Reuben Amissah gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Reuben Amissah has just signed for Mjondalen, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Anders Hiim 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tobias Bjørnebye was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Philip Sørlie Bro gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

The manager's exit leaves Reuben Amissah exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Reuben Amissah is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

In brief

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25 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Øyvind Alseth out for 99 days

99 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mjondalen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Mjondalen

Position 15 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

The dugout

Peder Klausen keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mjondalen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kweku Kekeli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Valdemar Schmølker

“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.

Squad

Valdemar Schmølker has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Mjondalen will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout

Keerat Singh Mann asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

A door opens for Brinder Singh

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

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The Mjondalen Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Philip Sørlie Bro: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mjondalen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Real improvement from Peder Klausen at Mjondalen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Peder Klausen is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Sondre Rossbach in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Øyvind Alseth 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tobias Flem

“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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Mjondalen spell it out for Magnus Bjorkan

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Magnus Bjorkan has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Oliver Midtgård 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Mjondalen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Mjondalen is running low.

The dugout

Oliver Rotihaug says Mjondalen went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Sondre Rossbach 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.

Squad

Alexander Nathan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexander Nathan and Mjondalen agree another 3 years.

Market

Mjondalen sign Alexander Nathan, one for the future

Alexander Nathan is 20, and Mjondalen have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mathias Bringaker

“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.

In brief

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The Mjondalen Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Mjondalen has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sander Marthinussen

“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.

In brief

20 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Anders Hiim in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Mjondalen promote Kristian Bjorkan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kristian Bjorkan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Jonas Odegaard steps up from the Mjondalen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonas Odegaard has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

19 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Oliver Midtgård 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mjondalen

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Anders Hiim 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.

Squad

Mathias Bringaker signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathias Bringaker and Mjondalen agree another 3 years.

Squad

Kweku Kekeli 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.

Squad

Tobias Flem slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Tobias Flem is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout

Keerat Singh Mann gets it from the manager

“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.

Boardroom

$4.1M taken back off the Mjondalen table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Market

The shop window has Jonas Bruusgaard in it

Mjondalen have let the market know Jonas Bruusgaard can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

18 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Mjondalen board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Bjørnebye 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.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Oliver Rotihaug's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Philip Sørlie Bro gets it from the manager

“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.

The dugout

Keerat Singh Mann knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Keerat Singh Mann trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

16 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mathias Bringaker

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Bringaker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mjondalen the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Øyvind Alseth out for 44 days

The medical room confirms 44 days on the sidelines for Øyvind Alseth, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Sondre Rossbach in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kweku Kekeli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mathias Bringaker

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Bringaker, and the manager let it.

Market

The Oliver Midtgård talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mjondalen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Keerat Singh Mann wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Mjondalen will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

Oliver Rotihaug knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Oliver Rotihaug trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

15 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Oliver Midtgård 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Jonas Bruusgaard in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Mathias Riise steps up from the Mjondalen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mathias Riise has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Kweku Kekeli 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.

The dugout

Tobias Flem gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Talks stall between Mjondalen and Mathias Bringaker

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

The shop window has Jonas Bruusgaard in it

Mjondalen have let the market know Jonas Bruusgaard can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

Mathias Bringaker asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Brinder Singh has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Brinder Singh has written the date down.

In brief

14 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Mjondalen spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

A hiding for Mjondalen

Beaten 0‑3 by Viking, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

Kweku Kekeli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Øyvind Alseth 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.

Squad

Mjondalen count the cost of losing Philip Sørlie Bro

24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Øyvind Alseth

“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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Mjondalen dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Magnus Bjorkan answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Mjondalen keep their word to Jonas Bruusgaard

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

12 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jonas Bruusgaard puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The drought breaks for Mjondalen

12 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Haugesund were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match

Mjondalen leave it late against Haugesund

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and Haugesund spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Market

Mathias Bringaker is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mjondalen is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Anders Hiim in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Anders Hiim was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Mjondalen get the job done against Haugesund

A 1‑0 win over Haugesund, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Kweku Kekeli 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 ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Oliver Midtgård

7.64, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Mjondalen had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

11 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Anders Hiim runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The wait goes on for Mjondalen

12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Oliver Midtgård puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Jonas Bruusgaard in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Mjondalen promote Martin Linnes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martin Linnes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Birger Thorsby joins the Mjondalen first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Birger Thorsby is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Aalesund take the points off Mjondalen

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Øyvind Alseth was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tobias Flem

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobias Flem, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Oliver Rotihaug
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Tobias Flem
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The Mjondalen Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Linus Alperud

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Only the photograph left for Mathias Bringaker

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Bringaker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mjondalen the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Match

IK Start take the points off Mjondalen

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Øyvind Alseth 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.

The dugout

Magnus Bjorkan: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The form table has caught Oliver Rotihaug

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Tobias Flem left out for tactical reasons at Mjondalen

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

7 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Match

8 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Sondre Rossbach keeps Mjondalen in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Anders Hiim

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Øyvind Alseth in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Erling Ryerson steps up from the Mjondalen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Erling Ryerson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Jonas Riise joins the Mjondalen first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonas Riise is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Mjondalen come up short against Tromso

Tromso left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kweku Kekeli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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The Mjondalen Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Mjondalen

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Mjondalen leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Mjondalen come up short against Bodo/Glimt

Bodo/Glimt left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Anders Hiim was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sondre Rossbach

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sondre Rossbach, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Øyvind Alseth 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.

Squad

Mjondalen are still strangers to each other

19 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Magnus Bjorkan to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

4 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Mjondalen

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match

Lillestrom take the points off Mjondalen

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sander Marthinussen

“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.

Transfer targets

Deadline beats Mjondalen to Bossman Debra

The clock did what Stabaek would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Squad

Oliver Rotihaug 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.

The dugout

Magnus Bjorkan answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Christian Mork Breivik is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

1 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Mjondalen bid $610.0K for Linus Alperud

The offer went to Lillestrom this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Sander Marthinussen stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sander Marthinussen and Mjondalen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Bodo/Glimt tell Mjondalen: Julian Faye Lund is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Kweku Kekeli

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Kweku Kekeli 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 ratings

Markus Ottesen was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market

49 months and counting on Peder Klausen

Still no offer on the table, and Peder Klausen’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

Mjondalen are still strangers to each other

16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

  • Player ratings Kweku Kekeli takes the honours
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout No place in the plan for Peder Klausen