Patrick King

Right Midfielder - Stromsgodset U20
8 Aug 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Patrick King

186 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

18 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Patrick King

20 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.

Market

Stromsgodset say no — this time

The offer from Viking for Filip Loftesnes-Bjune was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

58 days out for Sindre Mauritz-Hansen after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stromsgodset will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Emil Morgan hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stromsgodset can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stromsgodset

Mattias Lamhauge 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

A row about effort at Stromsgodset

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and André Rømer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Samuel Silalahi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The shop window has André Rømer in it

Stromsgodset have let the market know André Rømer can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

The Elias Hoff Melkersen question follows Stromsgodset around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Elias Hoff Melkersen’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
185 Edition

The Stromsgodset Sentinel

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Patrick King damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Sindre Mauritz-Hansen breaks a bone — 65 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Joe Bell is a medical away from Stromsgodset

The deal with Viking is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Isac Tostrup-Kval asks to leave Stromsgodset

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Mattias Lamhauge in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stromsgodset this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Loftesnes-Bjune 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.

Market

The Jesper Taaje talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Stromsgodset know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Navend Ahmad leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Navend Ahmad leaves Stromsgodset the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market

Marius Eriksrud leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Marius Eriksrud leaves Stromsgodset the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief