Erick Castro

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
19 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Erick Castro

602 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

8 Feb 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Stefan Stojanović out for 54 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stromsgodset will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

Stromsgodset spell it out for Erling Daehli

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

Boardroom

The Stromsgodset board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

11 seasons of Fredrik Ardraa

336 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Stromsgodset know what they have.

Squad

Elias Hoff Melkersen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Elias Hoff Melkersen commits to Stromsgodset for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Stromsgodset

Milan Vukotić 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.

Market

Stromsgodset bring in an old head

Denis Halinský is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

Blas Rolón linked with a move away

The name of Blas Rolón keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stromsgodset say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Still no ink between Stromsgodset and Jesper Holter Skjøren

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stromsgodset, another week without a signature from Jesper Holter Skjøren.

In brief

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595 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

21 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Stefan Stojanović out for 103 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stromsgodset will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Milan Vukotić 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 Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fredrik Ardraa 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.

In brief

593 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

7 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Stefan Stojanović out for 117 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stromsgodset will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom

Stromsgodset spell it out for Erling Daehli

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

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at Stromsgodset

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

Milan Vukotić in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

Squad

11 seasons of Erick Castro

32 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Stromsgodset know what they have.

Market

Philipp Sander wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Stromsgodset hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Tempers go at Stromsgodset

Philipp Sander 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.

Market

Experience through the door at Stromsgodset

Philipp Sander arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

The Bram Rovers story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Bram Rovers signs something — a contract at Stromsgodset or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

536 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

3 Nov 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Erling Daehli has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Stromsgodset can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom

The Stromsgodset board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

Birger Selnaes breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

10 seasons of Erick Castro

28 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Stromsgodset know what they have.

Market

Elias Hoff Melkersen wants more than Stromsgodset are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Tempers go at Stromsgodset

André Stavås Skistad 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

Fredrik Ardraa 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.

Boardroom

Stromsgodset pull $98.3K back off the table

The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.

Market

Blas Rolón linked with a move away

The name of Blas Rolón keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stromsgodset say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief