The IK Start Gazette
Market21 Jan 2030
Terry Benjamin is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at IK Start is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Jan 2030
Words exchanged at IK Start
Eirik Schulze 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.
Squad21 Jan 2030
A row about effort at IK Start
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gaute Vetti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Jan 2030
Jacob Pryts gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jacob Pryts is on it.
Market21 Jan 2030
The Markus Soomets question follows IK Start around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Markus Soomets’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market21 Jan 2030
The shop window has Eirik Schulze in it
IK Start have let the market know Eirik Schulze can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- The dugout Dennis Birkenes asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Fredrik Eidshaug keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Welcome back, Marius Altenborg