The IK Start Gazette
Market13 Nov 2028
Gustav Nyheim asks to leave IK Start
“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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
A fracture rules Marius Altenborg out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason IK Start will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
Kristian Hjelvik Halvorsen: 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.” IK Start have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Tempers go at IK Start
Eirik Schulze 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
Words at IK Start training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harald Woxen 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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
IK Start lose Bjorn Riise
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market13 Nov 2028
No place for Deni Dashaev in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Deni Dashaev has his answer from IK Start; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout13 Nov 2028
When it matters, Altin Ujkani 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 dugout13 Nov 2028
Erlend Segberg 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.
In brief
- Market The Eirik Schulze talk will not go away
- Market Erlend Segberg runs his contract down
- Boardroom The IK Start academy earns its keep