The Odd Post
Squad7 Jan 2030
Sondre Rossbach breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
Odd spell it out for Martin Ryerson
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Martin Ryerson has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
The Odd board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Gianni Stensness 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 Odd this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Words at Odd training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Valenzuela 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.
Squad7 Jan 2030
Emil Norman signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Norman and Odd agree another 3 years.
Market7 Jan 2030
Emil Norman told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Emil Norman has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Odd.
Boardroom7 Jan 2030
Odd pull $634.5K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
Market7 Jan 2030
Hinrik Harðarson linked with a move away
The name of Hinrik Harðarson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Odd say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Oleg Nikolaev placed on the list
- Boardroom Odd keep producing them