The Aalesund Chronicle
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Aalesund
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match2 Jul 2029
Aalesund sink to position 16
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Aalesund put the manager on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market2 Jul 2029
Bogdan Vătăjelu asks to leave Aalesund
“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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Bogdan Vătăjelu says Aalesund 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.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Nobody could get near Jakob Nyland Ørsahl
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Kristoffer Klaesson 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Gyasi Zardes signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gyasi Zardes and Aalesund agree another 2 years.
Match30 Jun 2029
Aalesund come up short against Lillestrom
Lillestrom left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Squad Aalesund lose Marcus Reed
- Boardroom $1.0M taken back off the Aalesund table
- Market The Paul Ngongo talk will not go away