Marked for Almas Samrat
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Skeid they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Skeid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kristoffer Ødemarksbakken trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The name of Sondre Rossbach keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Skeid say nothing, which says plenty.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clock does Filip Stensland’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Skeid could ask drops and the wages Filip Stensland can ask rise.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Skeid will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market16 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jens Ajer may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Keivan Ghaedamini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Skeid the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Skeid
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Skeid are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Keivan Ghaedamini has agreed terms with HamKam for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Skeid
Sondre Rossbach 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mathias Singh was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Skeid dressing room was either.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Skeid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kristian Kongelf has just signed for Skeid, and for once the answer mattered.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Edvard Pettersen did the work nobody counts — 6.69
13 combined actions and 6.69. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Skeid
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match19 Sep 2026
Mjondalen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Mathias Singh to a room that had heard them before.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristian Kongelf and Skeid agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market21 Sep 2026
Kristian Kongelf is 20, and Skeid have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Skeid, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Skeid
Sondre Rossbach and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fredrikstad have kept their man, and Skeid go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Skeid are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Adnan Hadžić
A mark of 7.34, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Tobias Myhre beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mathias Singh chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Skeid
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mikkel Wennberg Lindbäck was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lorents Apold-Aasen, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Skeid would like this to lead.