Alexander Ryerson

Right Forward - Stromsgodset
18 Apr 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Alexander Ryerson

285 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

12 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Saber Hraiech

122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stromsgodset lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces

Anger at Stromsgodset spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

Warre Moenaert breaks a bone — 125 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 125 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Only the photograph left for Håkon Røsten

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Håkon Røsten will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stromsgodset the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout

Alexander Ryerson keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stromsgodset may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stromsgodset

Josh Edwards 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.

Squad

Théo Radelet 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.

Market

Stromsgodset and Ole Enersen are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

The clock does Théo Radelet’s negotiating for him

1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Stromsgodset could ask drops and the wages Théo Radelet can ask rise.

In brief

Back issues
277 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

17 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Stromsgodset spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Håkon Røsten is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The dugout

Alexander Ryerson says Stromsgodset went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stromsgodset

Josh Edwards 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.

Squad

Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Théo Radelet 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.

Squad

Stromsgodset count the cost of losing Morten Normann

54 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Milan Moreels out for 42 days

The medical room confirms 42 days on the sidelines for Milan Moreels, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Franck Rivollier knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stromsgodset, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

No hiding place for Federico Viero

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Federico Viero, and the manager let it.

In brief