Daniel Valan

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Mjondalen
26 May 2027
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Marked for Daniel Valan

35 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Mar 2027

Alexander Groven damages knee ligaments — 65 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.

Transfer targets29 Mar 2027

The paperwork begins on Alex Rahm

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Mjondalen have done the hard part with Örgryte, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad29 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Mjondalen

Thomas Grøgaard and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Real improvement from Daniel Valan at Mjondalen

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Valan is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets29 Mar 2027

Door shut on Uzoma Chinonso

Mjondalen asked and Ikorodu City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Kweku Kekeli 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.

Transfer targets29 Mar 2027

A loan move for Aulon Bitiqi is in the works

Mjondalen have made the call to Örgryte. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Joachim Skålevik 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.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Kweku Kekeli asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market11 Jan 2027

Hillerød come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Mjondalen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Sander Lægreid Johansen is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Mjondalen

Thomas Grøgaard 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.

In brief

23 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Benjamin Sundo 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Oliver Midtgård is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Mjondalen will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Gaute Vetti 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kweku Kekeli 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.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Mikkel Søfeldt 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Daniel Valan signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Valan commits to Mjondalen for another 4 years.

Market4 Jan 2027

Mjondalen sign Daniel Valan, one for the future

Daniel Valan is 17, and Mjondalen 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

David Hickson linked with a move away

The name of David Hickson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mjondalen say nothing, which says plenty.

Market4 Jan 2027

Sem Aleksander Bergene joins Mjondalen on a free

No fee and no drama: Sem Aleksander Bergene has signed at Mjondalen, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief