Ware Peter Natana

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Mjondalen
22 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

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The Mjondalen Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

19 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 19, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

Market

Mathias Bringaker 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 Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Viljar Vevatne

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

Transfer targets

No thanks: Mathias Tønnessen rejects the move

Mjondalen had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Tromso, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Player ratings

Frederik Elkær beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

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

Match

A bad afternoon for Mjondalen against Stromsgodset

1‑3 to Stromsgodset, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sander Marthinussen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen rebuffed over Josef Baccay

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bodo/Glimt have kept their man, and Mjondalen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

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36 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Mjondalen spell it out for Ole Odegaard

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Ole Odegaard has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 3 in, 1 out at Mjondalen

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Frederik Elkær 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Peter Reinhardsen

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

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kweku Kekeli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen try to borrow Taha Usman

Valerenga have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Brinder Singh

“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 dugout

Frederik Elkær loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Frederik Elkær's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

Squad

A promotion for Frederik Elkær

Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Frederik Elkær has moved up it.

In brief