Marked for Fredrik Sorloth
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match15 Jul 2028
No end in sight to Tromso's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tromso has to find a result from somewhere.
Market17 Jul 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tromso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market17 Jul 2028
The name of Adrian Evensen-Jensen has come up in conversations Tromso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Casper Øyvann is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match15 Jul 2028
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Jakob Haugaard
“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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Tromso
Eivind Willumsen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Jul 2028
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match15 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for Tromso
10 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.
Market17 Apr 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tromso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Casper Øyvann 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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Tromso
Jens Hjertø-Dahl was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“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.
Market17 Apr 2028
IK Start are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Tromso will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fredrik Sorloth commits to Tromso for another 3 years.
Match15 Apr 2028
It needed Viktor Ekblom to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Bodo/Glimt, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Market
The Sander Innvær talk will not go away
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Boardroom
The Tromso production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Lars Olden Larsen
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tromso lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to Tromso's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tromso has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Tromso
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
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Casper Øyvann is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad12 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakob Haugaard, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Apr 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fredrik Sorloth 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Elyounoussi 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.