The Odd Post
Squad2 Jul 2029
Eirik Holmen keeps Odd in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Marko Brkljača: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Odd have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Jul 2029
Leander Øy has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Odd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Eirik Holmen stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eirik Holmen and Odd agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Odd
Eirik Holmen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Zakaria Mugeese runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match30 Jun 2029
Odd see off Sarpsborg 08
Three points for Odd, 2‑1 the final word against Sarpsborg 08 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
One of those days for Samuel Skree Skjeldal
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.87, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
A masterclass from Hinrik Harðarson
Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Market The Mukhtar Adamu talk will not go away
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Samuel Skree Skjeldal
- The terraces Samuel Skree Skjeldal has his own song now