Marcus Thorsby

Left Forward - Valerenga U20
12 Aug 2029
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67 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match6 Nov 2027

Mohamed Ofkir leads the rout of Sandefjord

3‑0, and Mohamed Ofkir took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Valerenga tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings8 Nov 2027

Mohamed Ofkir scores twice — 8.66

Two goals and a mark of 8.66 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match6 Nov 2027

The drought breaks for Valerenga

5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Sandefjord were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Mathias Grundetjern reaches 50 goals

50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

No place for Ghayas Zahid on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Valerenga pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Player ratings8 Nov 2027

Both jobs done by Håkon Sjåtil — 7.22

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 7.22, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

A promise honoured for Ivan Näsberg

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Valerenga told Ivan Näsberg something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Kevin Tshiembe

“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.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Ole Bohinen, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

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The Valerenga Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Ghayas Zahid frozen out at Valerenga

This is not rotation. Ghayas Zahid has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Valerenga is pretending otherwise.

Match30 Oct 2027

The wait goes on for Valerenga

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The terraces1 Nov 2027

The crowd has taken to Dennis Gjengaar

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Lorents Apold-Aasen

“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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Torjus Engebakken 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 Valerenga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Haakon Sørum lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Dennis Gjengaar takes the honours

Marked 7.60 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Valerenga had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Haakon Sørum is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Lorents Apold-Aasen: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Valerenga will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief