Marcus Lien

Left Back - Bryne U20
11 Feb 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Marcus Lien

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The Bryne Post

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

A brace, and Ole Sæter takes the afternoon — 8.76

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ole Sæter provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

A falling-out at Bryne

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

Squad

Words at Bryne training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lars Erik Sødal 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.

Market

Marcus Lien steps up from the Bryne academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcus Lien has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Ola Kamara is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 38 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Player ratings

The game went through Emil Sildnes — 6.63

Marked 6.63 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The dugout

Ismaël Seoné 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.

Loan watch

Adrian Hermansen has seen enough of Egersund

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Bryne, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

Match

Bryne and Skeid take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief