Marius Altenborg

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
1 Oct 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Marius Altenborg

120 Edition

The IK Start Gazette

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
119 Edition

The IK Start Gazette

6 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

24 days out for Marius Altenborg after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. IK Start will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Johan Meyer 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.

Market

Storm Strand-Kolbjørnsen 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jacob Pryts

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Ousmane Diallo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Tempers go at IK Start

Nikolas Koutsakos 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.

Market

Nikolas Koutsakos told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Nikolas Koutsakos has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at IK Start.

Squad

Harald Woxen named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Harald Woxen is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

When it matters, Erlend Segberg 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.

In brief