Gabriel Oddvar Opsahl

Defensive Midfielder - Valerenga
30 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Oddvar Opsahl

100 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Mohamed Ofkir's — 8.60

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.60, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

Aaron Kiil Olsen frozen out at Valerenga

This is not rotation. Aaron Kiil Olsen has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Valerenga is pretending otherwise.

The dugout

Vilmer Brunskog says Valerenga went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Dennis Gjengaar 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Valerenga

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Petter Strand

“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.

Match

Valerenga and Kristiansund take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Ole Bohinen: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad

Words at Valerenga training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Oddvar Opsahl 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.

In brief

Back issues
90 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Lillestrom take the derby

0‑1, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.

The dugout

Ghayas Zahid frozen out at Valerenga

This is not rotation. Ghayas Zahid has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Valerenga is pretending otherwise.

Market

Gustav Erik Stachowski 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 Valerenga, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A row about effort at Valerenga

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ghayas Zahid was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mathias Grundetjern

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Valerenga

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

Player ratings

Dennis Gjengaar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Nikola Udovicic signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nikola Udovicic commits to Valerenga for another 4 years.

Squad

Hugo Keto lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

In brief