The Sarpsborg 08 Courier
Market12 Apr 2027
So close: Andreas Nibe’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Lillestrom moved on, Andreas Nibe reports back to Sarpsborg 08, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Sarpsborg 08
Aimar Sher 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.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sarpsborg 08
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
Pavel Mogilevets 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Aalesund take the points off Sarpsborg 08
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Bjørn Inge Utvik 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
One of our own: Ruben Haaland joins the Sarpsborg 08 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruben Haaland is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Apr 2027
Kristian Ryerson steps up from the Sarpsborg 08 academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kristian Ryerson 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
Ruben Bohinen steps up from the Sarpsborg 08 academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruben Bohinen 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Sondre Sørli
- Squad Sarpsborg 08 count the cost of losing Ruben Bohinen
- Boardroom Sarpsborg 08 spend it where nobody looks