Nathan Deheppe

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27 Jul 2028
Thursday
Process

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86 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A European lesson for Valerenga

0‑1 against Hammarby. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Market

Jon Karrikaburu wants more than Valerenga are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market

Valerenga sell Magnus Westergaard for $1.0M

Magnus Westergaard has left for Stromsgodset in a $1.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A falling-out at Valerenga

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

The dugout

Karsten Ekorness back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Valerenga has worked with Karsten Ekorness before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

The dugout

Ghayas Zahid left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Ghayas Zahid will call it something else in private.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Valerenga

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Martin Normann to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Nathan Deheppe signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nathan Deheppe commits to Valerenga for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The ESTAC Troyes Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Tiago Santos

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. ESTAC Troyes have done the hard part with LOSC Lille, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $5.0M sale of Martin Adeline

He is going to Olympique de Marseille, the club has $5.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Martin Adeline moves on

Olympique de Marseille pay $5.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

Nathan Deheppe 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 ESTAC Troyes, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

ESTAC Troyes turn down Stade Rennais for Mathys Detourbet

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Sankhoun Diawara is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

FC Annecy take the points off ESTAC Troyes

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Mouhamed Diop 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 ESTAC Troyes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

ESTAC Troyes rebuffed over Louis Leroux

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

In brief