Philip Storås

Goalkeeper - Aalesund
18 Jul 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Philip Storås

48 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson 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 Aalesund can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Aalesund

Eirik Holmen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Philip Storås at Aalesund

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Philip Storås is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cheikh Mbacke Diop 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.

Match

Ivan Djantou sends Aalesund past Mjondalen

It finished 1‑0, and it was Ivan Djantou’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Aalesund.

Player ratings

Ivan Djantou was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.29. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

Alexander Hauge has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Alexander Hauge on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

No hiding place for Endre Osenbroch

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Endre Osenbroch, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson 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 Aalesund, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
35 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson asks to leave Aalesund

“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.

Transfer targets

Aalesund rebuffed over Shota Shekiladze

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dila have kept their man, and Aalesund go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Denys Tvardovskyi turns down Aalesund

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Shakhtar keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at Aalesund

Eirik Holmen 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Håkon Hammer

“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.

Transfer targets

Aalesund ask about Kenny Quetant

A loan enquiry to Werder Bremen: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

The manager makes Gaute Vetti a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Aalesund. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

The Elias Myrlid talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Aalesund know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Philip Storås 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.

In brief

21 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Eirik Holmen out for 76 days

76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aalesund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Philip Storås says Aalesund went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A row about effort at Aalesund

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elias Hagen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Jakob Nyland Ørsahl 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Gaute Vetti's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Endre Osenbroch

“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.

In brief