Marked for Arnas Dubickas
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
A fracture rules Ieltsin Camões out for 104 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tromso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout15 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Cody Pennington
“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.
Looking ahead15 Nov 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Molde in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Tromso would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market15 Nov 2027
Leo Cornic linked with a move away
The name of Leo Cornic keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tromso say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Joe Ashton has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tromso 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.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
27 starts and an average of 6.95. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
Ole Kristian Lauvli’s loan is measured in nothing happening
4 clean sheets from 10 appearances at IFK Norrkoping. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad23 Aug 2027
79 days out for Victor Dedes after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tromso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tromso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Window shuts: 16 in, 18 out at Tromso
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 18 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Tromso have gone to Stabaek with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad23 Aug 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 Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ruben Meling after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Boris Todorov and Tromso agree another 4 years.
In brief
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Squad
No place for Boris Todorov in the new shape
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Joe Ashton
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Market
Experience through the door at Tromso
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Jul 2027
Only the photograph left for Saulius Kuklys
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Saulius Kuklys will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Trakai the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
The deal with Kauno Zalgiris is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad12 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Trakai
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fiodor Mikoliunas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Trakai
Piotr Liszewski 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paulius Satkus, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Trakai lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Trakai
Daniele Montevago and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Trakai training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fiodor Mikoliunas 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Trakai
Daniele Montevago 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Deividas Mikoliunas 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Daniele Montevago is the talk of the training ground
Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Trakai
Daniele Montevago and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Edgaras Novikovas and Trakai agree another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Trakai
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Deividas Mikoliunas was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.