Aron Odegaard

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Odd U20
12 Apr 2029
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Marked for Aron Odegaard

140 Edition

The Odd Post

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad2 Apr 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Aron Odegaard

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Odd lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

Odd put Hakon Johansen on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

Crisis meeting at Odd

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

Window shuts: 3 in, 3 out at Odd

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market2 Apr 2029

Only the photograph left for Mathias Kristensen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mathias Kristensen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Odd the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad2 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Odd

Zakaria Mugeese and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Samuel Skree Skjeldal signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Skree Skjeldal and Odd agree another 4 years.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Josef Baccay 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 targets2 Apr 2029

A loan move for Tarik Karic is in the works

Odd have made the call to Malmo FF. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
139 Edition

The Odd Post

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad26 Mar 2029

The knee: Aron Odegaard out for 29 days

29 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Odd lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market26 Mar 2029

Storm Øines has said yes to Mjondalen

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Odd have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets26 Mar 2029

Isak Aron Sjong is a medical away from Odd

The deal with Bodo/Glimt is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets26 Mar 2029

No thanks: Jerayno Hunte rejects the move

Odd had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at PSV, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Words exchanged at Odd

Zakaria Mugeese 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.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Odd count the cost of losing Nikolas Walstad

44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Words at Odd training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josef Baccay 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.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

Zakaria Mugeese gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Zakaria Mugeese is on it.

Market26 Mar 2029

The Josef Baccay story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Josef Baccay signs something — a contract at Odd or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief