The Tromso Herald
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Tromso
Casper Øyvann 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
A bad afternoon for Tromso against Bodo/Glimt
0‑1 to Bodo/Glimt, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tromso lose Nikolai Hansen Steffensen
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Martin Lien answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Jonas Lien signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonas Lien commits to Tromso for another 4 years.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Adrian Evensen-Jensen
“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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Tromso pick somebody else ahead of Leo Cornic
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The plan did not have a place for Viktor Ekblom
Nobody at Tromso is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Vegard Erlien
- Player ratings David Edvardsson runs at them all day
- Market The Vegard Erlien question follows Tromso around