The Valerenga Gazette
Market9 Apr 2029
Trésor Mossi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Valerenga, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
Fredrik Haaland signs on for the long haul
Valerenga moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Fredrik Haaland, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
Tiago Arraygada has agreed to leave Valerenga for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Market9 Apr 2029
Tiago Arraygada has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Valerenga they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Ghayas Zahid 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 Valerenga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
7 academy graduates step up at Valerenga
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.
Squad9 Apr 2029
Brice Ambina 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.
Market9 Apr 2029
Thomas Daehli steps up from the Valerenga academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Daehli 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.
Market9 Apr 2029
One of our own: Jonas Lien joins the Valerenga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonas Lien is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Zalán Átrok signs on for more
- The dugout Anders Bærtelsen gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Fredrik Haaland on the point