Igor Gosik

Striker - Molde
15 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Igor Gosik

47 Edition

The Molde Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Not going: Jalal Abdullai stays at Molde

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Swansea City had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

Patrick Cutrone scores twice — 8.93

Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Another one collected away from home

5 on the bounce on the road for Molde. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Patrick Cutrone is carrying Molde

13 goals and a season average of 7.28. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The terraces

One of their own: Igor Gosik

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Patrick Cutrone the difference as Molde beat Aalesund

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Patrick Cutrone. 2‑0 against Aalesund, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

A row about effort at Molde

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

Squad

Tempers go at Molde

Erik Marxen 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Molde

Something was said to Patrick Cutrone and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

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The Molde Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

53 days out for Caleb Zady Sery after a fracture

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Molde

Mats Møller Dæhli 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 row about effort at Molde

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

The dugout

Albert Posiadała has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Molde will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Molde and Eirik Haugan are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Igor Gosik

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

The dugout

Halldor Stenevik 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 Molde, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Jalal Abdullai story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jalal Abdullai signs something — a contract at Molde or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

The clock does Eirik Haugan’s negotiating for him

2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Molde could ask drops and the wages Eirik Haugan can ask rise.

In brief

11 Edition

The Molde Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Caleb Zady Sery breaks a bone — 85 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Steffen Lie Skålevik yet — 7.89

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.89 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The dugout

Igor Gosik says Molde went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Kristian Lonebu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kristian Lonebu and Molde agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Molde

Victor Lind 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.

Match

Molde end the wait against Lillestrom

It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mats Møller Dæhli

“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.

Match

Molde see off Lillestrom

Three points for Molde, 1‑0 the final word against Lillestrom in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Molde Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Caleb Zady Sery out for 133 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Molde will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Eirik Haugan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eirik Haugan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Molde the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Bodo/Glimt tell Molde: Patrick Berg is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom

Eirik Haugan signs for Rosenborg while still at Molde

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Eirik Haugan has agreed terms with Rosenborg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at Molde

Victor Lind and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Molde come up short against Sarpsborg 08

Sarpsborg 08 left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Igor Gosik

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

Squad

Words at Molde training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Molde

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

1 Edition

The Molde Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Molde make their move for Germán Valera

$7.4M on the table at Elche. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Oskar Spiten-Nysæter at 18 — 7.84

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Bodo/Glimt tell Molde: Patrick Berg is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Tempers go at Molde

Mats Møller Dæhli 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

Igor Gosik stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Igor Gosik and Molde agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Eyes on Kristian Lonebu again

The phone has started ringing about Kristian Lonebu again, and this time the name on the line is GIF Sundsvall. Molde are listening politely and promising nothing.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Blerton Isufi — 7.04

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 7.04, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The terraces

Molde supporters have found a favourite in Oskar Spiten-Nysæter

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Caleb Zady Sery sends Molde past Sandefjord

It finished 2‑0, and it was Caleb Zady Sery’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Molde.

In brief