Marked for Håkon Volden
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Uneasy
Match15 Jan 2029
Rosenborg are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 63 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad15 Jan 2029
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Jan 2029
Warren Kamanzi 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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Dec 2028
“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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“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; Rosenborg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings11 Dec 2028
Emil Ceïde runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Dec 2028
5 goals and a season average of 7.33 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Håkon Volden and Rosenborg agree another 5 years.
Match10 Dec 2028
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Upbeat
Match28 Aug 2028
43 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Håkon Volden: 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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Aslak Fonn Witry 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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match26 Aug 2028
Viking made Rosenborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch28 Aug 2028
“I did not go to Bodo/Glimt 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
Match31 Jul 2028
34 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market31 Jul 2028
“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.
Market31 Jul 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Tomáš Nemčík 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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Håkon Volden commits to Rosenborg for another 5 years.
Market31 Jul 2028
KR 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Arayik Eloyan 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Arayik Eloyan: 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Aleksander Borgersen has left for Viking in a $1.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Simen Bolkan Nordli 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.
Market24 Jul 2028
Add another name to the list: KR have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Vetle Auklend. The answer from Rosenborg has not changed — yet.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“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; Rosenborg are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Pereira, and the manager let it.