Marked for Daniel Braut
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Steady
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Troy Nyhammer and Tromso agree another 5 years.
Match21 Aug 2027
6 unbeaten for Tromso
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Tromso did not have in the autumn.
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Braut 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Mikkel Hope
“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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Point won or two lost for Tromso?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against IK Start? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market23 Aug 2027
Tromso opened the door and nobody walked through it. So David Rodríguez stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Loan watch23 Aug 2027
18 starts and an average of 6.71. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
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Steady
Match2 Aug 2027
Tromso refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market2 Aug 2027
Patrick Villa 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 Tromso can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Daniel Braut 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Rodríguez, and the manager let it.
Market2 Aug 2027
He is 19, and nobody at Tromso signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Tromso release $2.1M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jakob Haugaard named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jakob Haugaard is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Tromso
Casper Øyvann 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market26 Jul 2027
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Triumph
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Jun 2027
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 terraces28 Jun 2027
Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Daniel Braut
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniel Braut has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match26 Jun 2027
A 2‑0 win over Stromsgodset, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Tromso
Kristoffer Sørensen 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Ruben Yttergård Jenssen'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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobias Guddal, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Daniel Braut scored one and made one — 7.89
Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.89, and 2 involvements.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match19 Jun 2027
Viking left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Tromso
Jens Hjertø-Dahl 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 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakob Haugaard, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Triumph
Market14 Jun 2027
Patrick Villa 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 Tromso can pretend not to have heard.
Match12 Jun 2027
Tromso cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“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; Tromso are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2027
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 ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Jun 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Daniel Braut. 1‑0 against Sarpsborg 08, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Tromso had the best player on the pitch.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Vetle Skjærvik
“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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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Jun 2027
Tromso up to position 2
20 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Match5 Jun 2027
Nobody wants to play Tromso 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Haugesund made Tromso work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tromso.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
Facundo Romero damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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 terraces24 May 2027
At 22 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.
Match22 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lars Olden Larsen. 1‑0 against Odd, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Squad19 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Facundo Romero
56 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tromso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Apr 2027
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tromso scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Apr 2027
10 unbeaten for Tromso
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Tromso did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces19 Apr 2027
Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Daniel Braut
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniel Braut has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match17 Apr 2027
Three points for Tromso, 1‑0 the final word against Bodo/Glimt in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Eivind Willumsen 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“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; Tromso are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Casper Øyvann 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Mathias Tønnessen has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sten Grytebust dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.15. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sebastián Cocimano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tromso.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Eivind Willumsen 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.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Tromso out
Out, 0‑2 to Viking, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Daniel Braut at 21 — 8.08
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Daniel Braut did not need any: 8.08, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Casper Øyvann 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Ole Kristian Lauvli has come up in conversations Tromso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jesper Grundt has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jesper Grundt. 2‑0 against Aalesund, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mikkel Hope is 20, and Tromso 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sebastián Cocimano has just signed for Tromso, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Braut commits to Tromso for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Casper Øyvann 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
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Eivind Willumsen 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Sebastián Cocimano is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
Match8 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Valerenga came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tromso shop where it costs nothing
Eivind Willumsen signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Helsingborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tromso did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ruben Yttergård Jenssen and Tromso agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.