Ole Strandberg

Defensive Midfielder - Sarpsborg 08 U18
8 Jul 2029
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Process

Marked for Ole Strandberg

89 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Sander Christiansen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sarpsborg 08 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Adrian Skogmar rejects the move

Sarpsborg 08 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Malmo FF, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Sarpsborg 08

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Words at Sarpsborg 08 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aimar Sher 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.

Transfer targets

Sarpsborg 08 rebuffed over Anders Molund

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bryne have kept their man, and Sarpsborg 08 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Tobias Thorsby joins the Sarpsborg 08 first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tobias Thorsby is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Mathias Sorloth steps up from the Sarpsborg 08 academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mathias 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.

Market

Fredrik Odegaard steps up from the Sarpsborg 08 academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fredrik Odegaard 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.

Market

Sarpsborg 08 promote Ole Strandberg from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ole Strandberg 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.

In brief