Jens Odegaard

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Molde U18
21 Aug 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jens Odegaard

18 Edition

The Molde Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Halldor Stenevik 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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

One of our own: Bjorn Ajer joins the Molde first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bjorn Ajer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Bjorn Ajer steps up from the Molde academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bjorn 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.

Market

One of our own: Alexander Pedersen joins the Molde first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexander Pedersen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Molde promote Jens Odegaard from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jens 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.

Squad

Birk Risa 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Ryan Christie plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Albert Posiadała knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Molde, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Eirik Haugan is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief