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Market9 Aug 2027
Mikkel Ceïde 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Mikkel Ceïde has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rosenborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Mads Bomholt: 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.” Rosenborg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market9 Aug 2027
The fee is $2.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Sarpsborg 08 drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market9 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match7 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.
Match7 Aug 2027
Mjondalen made Rosenborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Magnus Holte commits to Rosenborg for another 4 years.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Rosenborg, and 2 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Market28 Jun 2027
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match26 Jun 2027
Bodo/Glimt left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Rosenborg, and 0 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad28 Jun 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Alexis Alégué 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.
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Steady
Squad29 Mar 2027
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market29 Mar 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rosenborg will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I did not go to AGF to sit and watch. I want to come back to Rosenborg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“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.
Market29 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rosenborg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Mikkel Ceïde knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rosenborg, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market22 Mar 2027
IK Start come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rosenborg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market22 Mar 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rosenborg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Rosenborg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Mikkel Ceïde 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.
Market22 Mar 2027
The Tomáš Nemčík talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rosenborg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Leopold Wahlstedt joins up with his country. Rosenborg lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Steady
Market1 Mar 2027
Sandefjord come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rosenborg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Mar 2027
76 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mikkel Ceïde
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rosenborg will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Håkon Røsten and Rosenborg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to AGF to sit and watch. I want to come back to Rosenborg and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Match18 Jan 2027
30 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market18 Jan 2027
AGF are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Rosenborg will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Tomáš Nemčík keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rosenborg say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Market4 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Rasmus Sandberg: 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.” Rosenborg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rasmus Sandberg commits to Rosenborg for another 3 years.
Market4 Jan 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market4 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rosenborg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Aslak Fonn Witry keeps the shirt for now, at Rosenborg's convenience rather than his own.