The Aalesund Chronicle
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Endre Osenbroch
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Brage Kvithyld keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Aalesund may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Kristoffer Klaesson keeps Aalesund in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match10 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Aalesund
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Elias Hagen shuts the door
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Kristoffer Klaesson 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Aalesund
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.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Matěj Radosta was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.96. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Morten Ajer joins the Aalesund first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Morten Ajer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Birger Lien joins the Aalesund first team
- Market Kristian Haaland steps up from the Aalesund academy
- Market Morten Bjorkan steps up from the Aalesund academy