Mohamed Baghli

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Sarpsborg 08 U20
10 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mohamed Baghli

33 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Words exchanged at Sarpsborg 08

Frederik Carstensen 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.

Squad

Home is on Noa Williams's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Sarpsborg 08 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets

Sarpsborg 08 rebuffed over Vyacheslav Karavaev

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zenit have kept their man, and Sarpsborg 08 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Sarpsborg 08

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

A row about effort at Sarpsborg 08

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

The dugout

When it matters, Menno Koch plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Håkon Finstad-Vogt

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Håkon Finstad-Vogt, and the manager let it.

Market

Victor Halvorsen linked with a move away

The name of Victor Halvorsen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sarpsborg 08 say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

Sigurd Rosted knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sarpsborg 08, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
30 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Menno Koch 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 Sarpsborg 08, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Sarpsborg 08 say no — this time

The offer from Haugesund for Marius Lode was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sarpsborg 08

Bjørn Inge Utvik 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.

Squad

A move Timéo Lelong-Chrétien would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Timéo Lelong-Chrétien is living that version at Sarpsborg 08, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Håkon Lorentzen

Sarpsborg 08 asked and IK Start said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Sarpsborg 08 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Johan Skaarud 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.

Transfer targets

Sarpsborg 08 try to borrow Einar Fauskanger

Haugesund have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Sarpsborg 08 buy the years ahead of Timéo Lelong-Chrétien

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

A long bet from Sarpsborg 08 on Mohamed Baghli

He is 20, and nobody at Sarpsborg 08 signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief