The Aalesund Chronicle
Squad13 Aug 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stian Singh
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Aalesund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Ole Elyounoussi breaks a bone — 93 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match11 Aug 2035
The wait goes on for Aalesund
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match11 Aug 2035
The goals have deserted Aalesund
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Aalesund can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Anders Hiim 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings13 Aug 2035
Nobody could get near Ivan Djantou
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Aug 2035
Tromso take the points off Aalesund
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad13 Aug 2035
Ólafur Guðmundsson 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.
Market13 Aug 2035
Fredrik Odegaard leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Fredrik Odegaard leaves Aalesund the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Ruben Odegaard leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Aalesund production line keeps running
- Market Mathias Christensen’s agent stirs the pot again