From our football correspondent
Steady
Match30 Aug 2027
Viking up to position 3
33 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Niklas Fuglestad: 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.” Viking have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Aug 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match28 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Viking
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Viking are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
7 goals and a season average of 7.31. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Loan watch30 Aug 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Viking, and 6 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.
Match28 Aug 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Rosenborg came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market30 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Viking know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Squad2 Aug 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market2 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Viking have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match31 Jul 2027
6 unbeaten for Viking
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Viking did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Julian Faye Lund commits to Viking for another 4 years.
Market2 Aug 2027
Sarpsborg 08 pay $140.0K, 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Three points for Viking, 1-0 the final word against Sarpsborg 08 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match3 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Viking's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Viking has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Veton Berisha commits to Viking for another 2 years.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Stabaek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Viking and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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.
Match3 Jul 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Sandefjord came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Match7 Jun 2027
Viking up to position 2
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad7 Jun 2027
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“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.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I did not go to Stabaek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Viking and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Match5 Jun 2027
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
18 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Ľubomír Belko decides it from twelve yards
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.
Match5 May 2027
Cup progress for Viking
A 1-1 win over Tromso, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Viking
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I did not go to Stabaek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Viking and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Loan watch10 May 2027
18 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Match8 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Stabaek defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Upbeat
Market12 Apr 2027
The shirt still fits. Jens Pedersen is back at Viking, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market12 Apr 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Apr 2027
The shirt still fits. Marcus Sorloth is back at Viking, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market12 Apr 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Match10 Apr 2027
Three points for Viking, 1-0 the final word against Haugesund in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Viking are making the ground bigger
Work is signed off on a capacity of 17232. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“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.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Stabaek to sit and watch. I want to come back to Viking and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
18 appearances at Brisbane Roar and the goals keep coming. Viking are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mariano Vázquez commits to Viking for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
83 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market8 Mar 2027
The name of Henrik Falchener keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Viking say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A new face in his position, and Henrik Heggheim suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Viking have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market8 Mar 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Lucas Baños arrives at Viking with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Market8 Mar 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Lucas Baños moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
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Steady
Market15 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market15 Feb 2027
Haugesund pay $1.4M, 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Joe Bell has left for Odd in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Herman Haugen asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Somebody else's move, somebody else's headline. What it left at Viking is an empty peg and a footballer who keeps glancing at it.