Marked for Jonathan Harveg
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Feb 2028
105 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Moss lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Feb 2028
The phone has started ringing about Martin Palumbo again, and this time the name on the line is Molde. Moss are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad21 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Moss this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Feb 2028
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
Belts tighten at Moss
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Transfer targets21 Feb 2028
Moss asked and Sarpsborg 08 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Marius Cassidy 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 dugout21 Feb 2028
Sigurd Grønli knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Moss, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
“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.
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Steady
Squad24 Jan 2028
97 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Moss lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Moss
Mathias Enger Eriksen 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.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Moss counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Moss now.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Moss training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Cassidy 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 dugout24 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kristian Strande, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Mathias Hebo 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.
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Steady
Squad27 Dec 2027
126 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Moss lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Tempers go at Moss
Sigurd Grønli 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 dugout27 Dec 2027
“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.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
Belts tighten at Moss
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Market27 Dec 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mathias Enger Eriksen signs something — a contract at Moss or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Moss this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Jonathan Harveg is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sigurd Grønli, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market6 Dec 2027
The name of Niclas Semmen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Moss say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market6 Dec 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Edvard Race may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Bendik Berntsen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Match20 Nov 2027
5‑0, and Bjørn Martin Kristensen took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Moss tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match22 Nov 2027
The season ends: position 5 for Moss
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 48 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Jesper Eikrem, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.13
A mark of 8.13 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Moss
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Thomas Klemetsen Jakobsen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces22 Nov 2027
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Marked 8.10 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Match7 Jun 2027
Moss are in real trouble now
Position 14, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Moss
Mathias Enger Eriksen 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Jonathan Harveg is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Jesper Eikrem
“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.
Match5 Jun 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Moss
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marius Cassidy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
“I watch every Moss game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lyn runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Stefan Hauge after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Crisis
The terraces22 Mar 2027
Moss sell a favourite for $960.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Leonardo Rossi was one of the reasons people came, and $960.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market22 Mar 2027
Leonardo Rossi has left for Haugesund in a $960.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Words at Moss training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sigurd Grønli 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 targets22 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad22 Mar 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Moss are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
Belts tighten at Moss
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonathan Harveg
“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.
Market22 Mar 2027
The name of Mathias Enger Eriksen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Moss say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Moss would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Crisis
Market15 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market15 Mar 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Leonardo Rossi had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad15 Mar 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Moss
Sigurd Grønli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Moss training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Momodou Njie 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 targets15 Mar 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Moss can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Markus Welinder
“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 dugout15 Mar 2027
Sigurd Prestmo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Moss 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.
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Crisis
Market8 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Moss have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Stefan Hauge has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Moss can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Moss have done the hard part with HamKam, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market8 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Moss have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market8 Feb 2027
Hødd pay $110.0K, 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Moss training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sigurd Grønli 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 targets8 Feb 2027
Moss asked and Stromsgodset said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Kristian Strande loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Kristian Strande's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Sigurd Grønli knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Moss, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market18 Jan 2027
Mikkel Lassen 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 Moss can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Moss
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sigurd Grønli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Momodou Njie has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Moss know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Moss
Jonathan Harveg and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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 dugout18 Jan 2027
William Kvale has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Moss 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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Moss
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Leonardo Rossi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Moss have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Moss
Mathias Enger Eriksen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jonathan Harveg 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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 dugout4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Marius Cassidy
“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 dugout4 Jan 2027
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.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
$1.7M taken back off the Moss table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market4 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mathias Enger Eriksen signs something — a contract at Moss or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Moss will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Moss
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sigurd Grønli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Markus Welinder commits to Moss for another 3 years.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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 dugout7 Dec 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.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Moss lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Moss may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market30 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Markus Welinder will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Moss the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Moss
Sigurd Grønli 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
128% of the income goes out in wages at Moss
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Moss
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mikkel Lassen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to William Kvale, and the manager let it.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Moss counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Moss now.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Moss, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Moss lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match21 Nov 2026
A hiding for Moss
Beaten 0‑3 by Skeid, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market23 Nov 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 Moss, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
William Kvale: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Moss have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Moss
Martin Palumbo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Moss
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mikkel Lassen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Moss dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kristoffer Lassen Harrison trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.