The Valerenga Gazette
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 6 gone
That is the business done at Valerenga until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Real improvement from Gabriel Oddvar Opsahl at Valerenga
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gabriel Oddvar Opsahl is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Valerenga
Ole Sæter 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
One of our own: Lars Riise joins the Valerenga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lars Riise is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Apr 2027
One of our own: Jonas Thorsby joins the Valerenga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonas Thorsby is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Apr 2027
Valerenga promote Morten King from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Morten King 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
One of our own: Stefan King joins the Valerenga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan King is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Dennis Gjengaar has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Valerenga will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Dennis Gjengaar asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Vilmer Brunskog
- Squad A promotion for Lucas Ravn-Haren
- Looking ahead Elias Hagen goes back to face Bodo/Glimt