Marked for Marius Glødsøy
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad22 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marius Glødsøy
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rosenborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market22 Mar 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rosenborg people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets22 Mar 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Valerenga have kept their man, and Rosenborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market22 Mar 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Rosenborg can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Ole Selnæs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Mathias Kjølø 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
10 new faces, and Rosenborg are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Marcus Melchior
“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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Tomáš Nemčík has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rosenborg 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rosenborg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market15 Mar 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rosenborg people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match15 Mar 2027
34 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market15 Mar 2027
The chase for Isak Määttä ended with $5.1M changing hands and Bodo/Glimt out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets15 Mar 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bodo/Glimt have kept their man, and Rosenborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Rosenborg
Ole Selnæs 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Amin Chiakha commits to Rosenborg for another 5 years.
Market15 Mar 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rosenborg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Rosenborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathias Kjølø 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
Marius Glødsøy damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
Al-Hilal wanted more than $12.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
The offer went to Bodo/Glimt this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets8 Mar 2027
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.
Market8 Mar 2027
BK Hacken pay $5.4M, 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
Rosenborg say no — this time
The offer from Odd for Tobias Dahl was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ole Selnæs and Rosenborg agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Rosenborg
Aslak Fonn Witry 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
The phone has started ringing about Jesper Reitan-Sunde again, and this time the name on the line is FF Jaro. Rosenborg are listening politely and promising nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marius Glødsøy
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rosenborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market1 Mar 2027
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Rosenborg have paid $23.6M for Gonzalo Plata, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
Rosenborg have gone to Al-Hilal with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
Rosenborg asked and Al-Ahli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
Rosenborg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sarpsborg 08, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market1 Mar 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rosenborg have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market1 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Aslak Fonn Witry and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
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The terraces
Rosenborg spend $23.6M on the signing the town wanted
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Squad
Håkon Røsten signs a new deal
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Squad
Words at Rosenborg training over how hard people work