The IK Start Gazette
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at IK Start
Eirik Schulze and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad25 Jan 2027
IK Start lose Nicolai Apland
35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Olav Veum's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Patrick Lien 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Jens Husebø
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market25 Jan 2027
The Markus Soomets question follows IK Start around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Markus Soomets’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Ridouan Essaeh
- The dugout Johan Meyer asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Omar Jebali is fit again