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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Luis Murillo out for 86 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stromsgodset, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Luis Murillo out for 118 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stromsgodset can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Harold Tenorio would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Harold Tenorio is living that version at Stromsgodset, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Mićin 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stromsgodset have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to André Stavås Skistad, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Gustav Valsvik
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gustav Valsvik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stromsgodset have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Gustav Wikheim 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bent Sørmo 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kreshnik Krasniqi, and the manager let it.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clock does Ole Enersen’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Stromsgodset could ask drops and the wages Ole Enersen can ask rise.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Stromsgodset
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Stromsgodset are no longer polite ones.
Market2 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stromsgodset they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a goal for Stromsgodset
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petar Mićin 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Mjondalen to sit and watch. I want to come back to Stromsgodset and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Stromsgodset lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Mjondalen
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Mjondalen
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mjondalen can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Sarpsborg 08 left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Benjamin Sundo 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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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑3 to Sandefjord, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Sondre Rossbach 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 Sep 2026
“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.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kweku Kekeli 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.
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Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Mjondalen
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a goal for Mjondalen
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrián Acosta
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mjondalen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Valerenga will be the happier side with the point.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Adrián Acosta
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Mjondalen has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Mjondalen
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match29 Aug 2026
The goals have deserted Mjondalen
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Mjondalen can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Bjørnebye 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Peder Klausen
Nobody at Mjondalen is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Match29 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Mjondalen?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Bodo/Glimt? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Benjamin Sundo 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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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sondre Rossbach 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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Markus Ottesen and Mjondalen agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Rosenborg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Bjørnebye 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Oliver Rotihaug
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Peder Klausen's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
422 appearances across 16 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Stromsgodset know what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Fredrik Ardraa at 19 — 8.07
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Fredrik Ardraa did not need any: 8.07, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gustav Valsvik 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 ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stromsgodset have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lars Vilsvik commits to Stromsgodset for another 2 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑1 win over Haugesund, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lars Vilsvik 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.