From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match6 Sep 2027
Molde are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match4 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Molde's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molde has to find a result from somewhere.
Match4 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Sergio Rizzi
“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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Eirik Hestad is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.32 with 2 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match4 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Viking will be the happier side with the point.
Market6 Sep 2027
The name of Mats Møller Dæhli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molde say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 32 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Molde are won quietly and lost loudly.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 35 with 314 appearances behind him, and Molde have to plan for both answers.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Aug 2027
Ivan Djantou: 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.” Molde have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.22 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch30 Aug 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 29 matches say the rest.
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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Sarpsborg 08 came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market30 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molde know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Market2 Aug 2027
Mjondalen come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Molde did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Molde have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market2 Aug 2027
Bodo/Glimt pay $1.5M, 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Fredrik Gulbrandsen and Molde agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.28 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match31 Jul 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Molde, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molde know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match3 Jul 2027
1-2 to Bodo/Glimt, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Birk Risa
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Albert Posiadała knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Market5 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molde know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match5 Jun 2027
Three points for Molde, 2-0 the final word against Stabaek in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Birk Risa
“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.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Market7 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molde know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match5 May 2027
Cup progress for Molde
A 1-0 win over Sandefjord, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
98 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molde
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.
Squad10 May 2027
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Magnus Fjørtoft Løvik, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Samukele Kabini
“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.
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Uneasy
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Molde's wait for a win
10 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molde has to find a result from somewhere.
Market12 Apr 2027
The shirt still fits. Marcus Singh is back at Molde, 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
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
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.
Loan watch12 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Wages eat 85% of everything Molde earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Match10 Apr 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. IK Start 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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Uneasy
Loan watch15 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Stromsgodset to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market15 Mar 2027
The name of Mats Møller Dæhli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molde say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Albert Posiadała has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
The fee is $520.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Lillestrom drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market15 Feb 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fredrik Gulbrandsen has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Molde.
Market15 Feb 2027
The name of Mats Møller Dæhli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molde say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A new face in his position, and Kristian Eriksen suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Molde have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“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
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Kristian Eriksen has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.