The Sandefjord Sentinel
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lamin Njie is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lamin Njie stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lamin Njie and Sandefjord agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Alexander Ruud Tveter
Everybody at Sandefjord saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Evangelos Patoulidis knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Evangelos Patoulidis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad12 Oct 2026
No place for Morten Trøen in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Sandefjord are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Andreas Fredheim 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.
In brief
- Looking ahead Mathias Sauer faces his old club
- Market Jakob Dunsby linked with a move away
- Looking ahead An away day at Haugesund next for Sandefjord
- The dugout The manager comes out for Jakob Vester