Gustav Vik

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
4 Oct 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Gustav Vik

96 Edition

The IK Start Gazette

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

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Squad

Words exchanged at IK Start

Eirik Schulze and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at IK Start

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

The dugout

No hiding place for John Olav Norheim

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

Match

IK Start find a way past Odd

Odd made IK Start work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

IK Start count the cost of losing Gustav Vik

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Player ratings

Markus Soomets was the difference for IK Start

Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Market

Erlend Segberg told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Erlend Segberg has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at IK Start.

The dugout

Patrick Linnes: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief

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The IK Start Gazette

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mathias Rosenørn damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

Lukas Gausdal: 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.” IK Start have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

The dugout

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Match

No end in sight to IK Start's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at IK Start has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

The goals have deserted IK Start

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at IK Start can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Words exchanged at IK Start

Eirik Schulze and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for John Olav Norheim

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

Match

A bad afternoon for IK Start against Valerenga

0‑1 to Valerenga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Gustav Vik out for 51 days

The medical room confirms 51 days on the sidelines for Gustav Vik, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Nikolas Koutsakos
  • Squad A row about effort at IK Start
  • The dugout The view from the dugout