The Stromsgodset Sentinel
Market10 Apr 2028
So close: Darío Rostagno’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Lillestrom moved on, Darío Rostagno reports back to Stromsgodset, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market10 Apr 2028
IF Elfsborg join the queue for Awal Auta
Add another name to the list: IF Elfsborg have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Awal Auta. The answer from Stromsgodset has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Gustav Wikheim 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.
Boardroom10 Apr 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Stromsgodset
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.
Match8 Apr 2028
6 unbeaten for Stromsgodset
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Stromsgodset did not have in the autumn.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Words at Stromsgodset training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikkel Ceïde 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
No hiding place for Herman Stengel
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Herman Stengel, and the manager let it.
Market10 Apr 2028
Stromsgodset promote Patrick Daehli from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Daehli 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
One of our own: Erling Elyounoussi joins the Stromsgodset first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erling Elyounoussi 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 Mattias Lamhauge dropped after a run of poor form
- Match Stromsgodset and Mjondalen take a point apiece
- Player ratings Elias Hoff Melkersen runs at them all day