The IK Start Gazette
Market16 Aug 2027
Fredrik Pålerud puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at IK Start, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad16 Aug 2027
John Olav Norheim out for 17 days
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for John Olav Norheim, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Stefen Tchamche runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Håkon Lorentzen 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 IK Start this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Rivers United tell IK Start: Maclyn Biokpo Jenewari is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match14 Aug 2027
IK Start see off Bryne
Three points for IK Start, 1‑0 the final word against Bryne in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad16 Aug 2027
IK Start lose Gustav Vik
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Armand Wangen 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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Johan Meyer
“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
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Nikolas Koutsakos
- Market IK Start sign Mathias Skott-Grande, one for the future
- The dugout Ole Pedersen: “That is the standard”