The Aalesund Chronicle
Match8 Apr 2028
6 matches without a win for Aalesund
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Aalesund are no longer polite ones.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Tempers go at Aalesund
Eirik Holmen 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.
Boardroom10 Apr 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Aalesund
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
Words at Aalesund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uba Charles 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Home is on Bianief Peters's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Aalesund are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
The crowd has taken to Henrik Melland
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad10 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Davíð Snær Jóhannsson
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Apr 2028
Morten King steps up from the Aalesund academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Morten King 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Aalesund promote Aron Odegaard from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aron Odegaard 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.
In brief
- Market Sander Svensson steps up from the Aalesund academy
- Market Sander Hauge steps up from the Aalesund academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Henrik Melland at his very best