The HamKam Gazette
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
HamKam go back to the board over Adrian Kurd Rønning
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $38.9K — a club that wants Adrian Kurd Rønning enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Loris Mettler signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Loris Mettler and HamKam agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at HamKam
Julian Gonstad 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: HamKam walk away from Adrian Kurd Rønning
$37.0K was the most the club would pay and Kristiansund were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marcus Sandberg 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Vladislav Torop
HamKam asked and CSKA Moscow said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Patrick Ajer steps up from the HamKam academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Ajer 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 Aug 2026
HamKam promote Lars Meling from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lars Meling 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 Aug 2026
Fredrik Henriksen steps up from the HamKam academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fredrik Henriksen 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
- Market Alexander Strandberg steps up from the HamKam academy
- Squad HamKam are still strangers to each other
- The dugout No hiding place for Aksel Potur