The Bryne Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$2.9M settles it between the clubs for Oskar Øhlenschlæger
Fredrikstad have accepted the money. What Bryne do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sarpsborg 08 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bryne did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sanel Bojadzic is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bryne is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Nicklas Strunck delivers — 7.54
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nicklas Strunck scored, was marked 7.54, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Jacob Haahr signs for Fredrikstad while still at Bryne
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jacob Haahr has agreed terms with Fredrikstad for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Magnus Rugland Ree signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Magnus Rugland Ree commits to Bryne for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Bryne
Duarte Moreira 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
John Kitolano 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Villads Nielsen
Bryne asked and Bodo/Glimt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Lars Erik Sødal
- Market One of our own: Thomas Haaland joins the Bryne first team
- Market Bryne promote Vegard Lien from within