The IK Start Gazette
Market5 Aug 2030
Terms done: Jacob Pryts is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Aalesund waiting with a shirt. Nobody at IK Start is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match3 Aug 2030
The wait goes on for IK Start
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match3 Aug 2030
The goals have deserted IK Start
9 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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Deni Dashaev stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Deni Dashaev and IK Start agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets5 Aug 2030
SonderjyskE tell IK Start: Abdul Daramy 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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Words exchanged at IK Start
Ousmane Diallo 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.
Match3 Aug 2030
IK Start come up short against Bodo/Glimt
Bodo/Glimt left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Aug 2030
Jacob Pryts gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad5 Aug 2030
IK Start count the cost of losing Elliott Delay
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Squad Altin Ujkani falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Transfer targets IK Start try to borrow Peter Heinrich