The Stromsgodset Sentinel
Squad10 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Stromsgodset
Felipe Chávez 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.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Nobody could get near Ole Enersen
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom10 Apr 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Stromsgodset
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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Fatih Aksoy 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Stromsgodset promote Lars Johansen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lars Johansen 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Stromsgodset promote Patrick Normann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Normann 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
One of our own: Tobias Daehli joins the Stromsgodset first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tobias Daehli is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Apr 2028
Morten Thorsby steps up from the Stromsgodset academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Morten Thorsby 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Too much change too quickly at Stromsgodset
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Yaroslav Solovjov
- Match Point won or two lost for Stromsgodset?