The Haugesund Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Sory Diarra has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Haugesund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Eirik Viland Andersen runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Sory Diarra signs for Molde while still at Haugesund
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Sory Diarra has agreed terms with Molde for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Pyry Hannola signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pyry Hannola and Haugesund agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Martin Bjørnbak in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Haugesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Olav Øby 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months and counting on Amund Wichne
Still no offer on the table, and Amund Wichne’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Haugesund sign Erling Ajer, one for the future
Erling Ajer is 14, and Haugesund have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market10 Aug 2026
Haugesund buy the years ahead of Jonas Ryerson
He is 14, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Squad 5 new faces, and Haugesund are still learning each other
- Match Sory Diarra rescues a point for Haugesund
- Player ratings Sory Diarra changes it off the bench