Martin Odegaard

Defensive Midfielder - Bodo/Glimt U18
6 Feb 2029
Tuesday
Process

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The Bodo/Glimt Courier

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Håkon Evjen deal

Bodo/Glimt ran out of time with Rosenborg. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Player ratings

Vintage Jhonatan Candia — 8.15

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.15, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Tempers go at Bodo/Glimt

Jonathan Klinsmann was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Bodo/Glimt

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

A row about effort at Bodo/Glimt

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

Match

Andreas Helmersen the difference as Bodo/Glimt beat Valerenga

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andreas Helmersen. 2‑1 against Valerenga, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Joel Mvuka beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Martin Odegaard steps up from the Bodo/Glimt academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martin Odegaard 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.

Market

Bodo/Glimt promote Henrik Selnaes from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrik Selnaes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief