The Molde Chronicle
Squad3 Nov 2031
William Viken damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Squad3 Nov 2031
A fracture rules Fredrik Hauge out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Molde will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Nov 2031
Molde up to position 2
74 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Roberto Bellini 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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Samukele Kabini 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.
The dugout3 Nov 2031
The manager makes an example of Eirik Haugan
“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 dugout3 Nov 2031
Peter Christiansen has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde 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.
The dugout3 Nov 2031
Kristian Eriksen knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kristian Eriksen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Nov 2031
The Peter Christiansen talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molde know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Kristijan Jovović
- Boardroom Molde keep producing them