Marked for Mathias Blix Olsen
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Match26 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Stromsgodset, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad31 Aug 2026
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Bodo/Glimt lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Cittadella for Magnus Bech Riisnæs was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jan de Boer has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Bodo/Glimt have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brann have kept their man, and Bodo/Glimt go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Bodo/Glimt ran out of time with Lyn. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.86 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Bodo/Glimt had the best player on the pitch.
Back issues
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Market24 Aug 2026
$23.6M from Atalanta for Jens Petter Hauge. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Mathias Blix Olsen damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
Hødd are out and Bodo/Glimt go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Magnus Bech Riisnæs, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.07
A mark of 8.07 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Bodo/Glimt sell a favourite for $23.6M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jens Petter Hauge was one of the reasons people came, and $23.6M does not replace that by itself.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nikita Haikin has left for Dinamo Moscow in a $3.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $333.8K — a club that wants Oliver Hintsa enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: IA keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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Triumph
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Atalanta waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Bodo/Glimt is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Mathias Blix Olsen damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Match12 Aug 2026
A 4‑2 win over Sandefjord, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Andreas Helmersen took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bodo/Glimt tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros pay $9.6M, 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $9.6M sale of Patrick Berg
He is going to Ferencvaros, the club has $9.6M 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Ulrik Saltnes yet — 7.92
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match15 Aug 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Bodo/Glimt have 4 straight wins of it.