Hugo Almeida

Central Midfielder - Mjondalen
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Hugo Almeida

58 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fitim Azemi

89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Mjondalen lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Mathias Bringaker scores twice — 8.40

Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Marshall Burke keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mjondalen may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Anders Klynge in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Victor Halvorsen 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.

Match

Mjondalen see off Valerenga

Three points for Mjondalen, 3‑1 the final word against Valerenga in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Anders Klynge

Marked 8.84 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Mjondalen settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Valerenga spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Markus Ottesen

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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43 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Lucas Cohen asks to leave Mjondalen

“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.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Mjondalen — 7.60

1 for Victor Halvorsen, marked 7.60, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Mjondalen count the cost of losing Alexander Groven

67 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

The wait goes on for Mjondalen

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Anders Klynge 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 Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Victor Halvorsen 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Mjondalen against Valerenga

1‑2 to Valerenga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Anders Klynge runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Juliano

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

In brief

23 Edition

The Farense Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Sarpreet Singh runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Cláudio Falcão in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Farense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Farense come up short against Leiria

Leiria left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Gonçalo Silva gets it from the manager

“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.

Squad

Words at Farense training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Pinto 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

Gabriel Barbosa named in the team of the month

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

Market

The shop window has Sarpreet Singh in it

Farense have let the market know Sarpreet Singh can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

Ricardo Cartaxo is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Farense has been clear about where Ricardo Cartaxo stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings

Gabriel Barbosa never got going

5.54 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief