The Molde Chronicle
Squad10 Jan 2028
75 days out for Emil Breivik after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Molde will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Mads Kikkenborg 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.
Market10 Jan 2028
Talks stall between Molde and Lars Remmem
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Jan 2028
Emil Breivik linked with a move away
The name of Emil Breivik keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molde say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Igor Gosik gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Igor Gosik is on it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Martin Linnes has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Martin Linnes has written the date down.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Igor Gosik knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Igor Gosik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Ylldren Ibrahimaj starts on the language
Two hours a week with a tutor, which is the least glamorous thing at Molde and the one that decides whether a foreign signing is still here in two years.
Match10 Jan 2028
Nothing left to play for but pride at Molde
41 points in position 9: too many to go down, too few to go anywhere. The honest description of a season like this is a shrug, and the supporters have already given it.
In brief
- Squad Word from the training ground: Fredrik Kristensen Dahl
- Squad Welcome back, Marcus Thorsby