The Stabaek Post
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eirik Lereng
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stabaek lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Mathias Sauer runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Kristian Onsrud keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stabaek may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Apr 2027
August Mikkelsen 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 Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Stabaek
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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Marius Lundemo 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 terraces12 Apr 2027
The crowd has taken to Mathias Sauer
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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Tobias Normann steps up from the Stabaek academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tobias Normann 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
Stabaek promote Henrik Haaland from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henrik Haaland 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.