The Stabaek Post
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andreas Hoven
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stabaek lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Nicolai Næss: 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.” Stabaek have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Bop Guèye, 20, steals the show — 7.86
Marked 7.86 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Marius Lundemo yet — 8.11
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market12 Apr 2027
Kimi Løkkevik asks to leave Stabaek
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
8 academy players handed senior numbers at Stabaek
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets12 Apr 2027
Stade de Reims tell Stabaek: Adama Bojang is not for sale
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.
The terraces12 Apr 2027
Stabaek supporters have found a favourite in Bop Guèye
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Bop Guèye has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match10 Apr 2027
Bop Guèye sends Stabaek past Mjondalen
It finished 2‑0, and it was Bop Guèye’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stabaek.
In brief
- Market Stabaek promote Lars Ryerson from within
- Market One of our own: Stefan Odegaard joins the Stabaek first team
- Market Vegard Lien steps up from the Stabaek academy