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Uneasy
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the Sandefjord boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market1 Mar 2027
Jakob Dunsby hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sandefjord can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2027
The Stabaek deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Nikolaj Möller reports back to Sandefjord with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Market1 Mar 2027
The offer from Tromso for Daniel Johan Skaarud 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.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $77.9K — a club that wants Vegard Solheim enough to be asked twice.
Market1 Mar 2027
Molde pay $1.3M, 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sandefjord know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Alexander Busch and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets1 Mar 2027
The offer went to Haugesund 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.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fredrik Holmé commits to Fredrikstad for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sigurd Kvile 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Solomon Owusu, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Samuel Leach Holm has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fredrikstad 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martin Børsheim’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Fredrikstad have no good answer.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Fredrikstad money.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Fredrikstad will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Fredrikstad scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lillestrom come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Fredrikstad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clock did what Cardiff City would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Ulrik Fredriksen has come up in conversations Fredrikstad were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Fredrikstad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KAA Gent have kept their man, and Fredrikstad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Aleksander Andresen 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Rosenborg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.