Marked for Cassander Dreyer
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match25 Jan 2027
Bodo/Glimt refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 30 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Pergolettese waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bodo/Glimt is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Bodo/Glimt
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sondre Auklend was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cassander Dreyer and Bodo/Glimt agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad25 Jan 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 Bodo/Glimt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sion waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bodo/Glimt is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Cassander Dreyer is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Bodo/Glimt
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sondre Brunstad Fet was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Sondre Auklend and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Gift Sunday and Bodo/Glimt agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Håkon Evjen gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Håkon Evjen is on it.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over IK Start, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
Viking paid $3.1M and Bodo/Glimt took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 11 in, 4 out at Bodo/Glimt
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with Viking is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Julian Faye Lund has agreed terms with Rosenborg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Sondre Auklend again, and this time the name on the line is Aalborg. Bodo/Glimt are listening politely and promising nothing.