Lars King

Goalkeeper - Lyn U18
21 Oct 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lars King

107 Edition

The Lyn Chronicle

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wins at Lyn

16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

14 days out for Lars King after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lyn will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Niklas Fuglestad settles it late for Lyn

The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Niklas Fuglestad decided nobody was going anywhere. Mjondalen had no time left to answer.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Lyn

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Tempers go at Lyn

Anders Bjørntvedt Olsen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Lyn

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Victor Divine

Lyn asked and Hillerød said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

Lyn supporters have found a favourite in Niklas Fuglestad

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Niklas Fuglestad has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Lyn find a way past Mjondalen

Mjondalen made Lyn work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief

  • Squad Ebrima Sawaneh falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Player ratings One of those days for Niklas Fuglestad
  • Squad 7 new faces, and Lyn are still learning each other
Back issues
106 Edition

The Lyn Chronicle

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lars King breaks a bone — 21 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Espen Garnås hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lyn can pretend not to have heard.

Match

9 unbeaten for Lyn

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Lyn did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Julius Skaug delivers — 7.86

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Julius Skaug scored, was marked 7.86, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

Lyn turn down Brann for Isak Kjelsrud Vik

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lyn

Anders Bjørntvedt Olsen 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.

Squad

Djessine Seba arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Djessine Seba has, at Lyn, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Anders Bjørntvedt Olsen

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Lyn rebuffed over Justin Salmon

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brann have kept their man, and Lyn go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

105 Edition

The Lyn Chronicle

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

William Sell asks to leave Lyn

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

A fracture rules Lars King out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lyn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Nobody wins at Lyn

15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

8 unbeaten for Lyn

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Lyn did not have in the autumn.

Squad

A falling-out at Lyn

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

Transfer targets

Lyn rebuffed over Markus Ottesen

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mjondalen have kept their man, and Lyn go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Sander Amble Haugen makes it 200

200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

Player ratings

Niklas Jakobsen did the work nobody counts — 7.05

10 combined actions and 7.05. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout

Alexander Pedersen gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

104 Edition

The Lyn Chronicle

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Lars King breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Lyn

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Anders Bjørntvedt Olsen 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 Lyn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Niklas Jakobsen ran the middle of the pitch — 6.84

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 14 combined actions and a mark of 6.84, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Leo Boström

Lyn asked and FF Jaro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Lyn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ebrima Sawaneh 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.

Squad

Adam Amrani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adam Amrani commits to Lyn for another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Lyn ask about Victor Divine

A loan enquiry to Hillerød: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched William Sell

7.45, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Lyn had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief

103 Edition

The Lyn Chronicle

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A fracture rules Lars King out for 46 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lyn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Niklas Jakobsen takes the afternoon — 8.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Niklas Jakobsen provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Nobody wins at Lyn

14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

Nobody wants to play Lyn right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Lyn

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Match

Niklas Jakobsen the difference as Lyn beat Åsane

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Niklas Jakobsen. 3‑2 against Åsane, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Julius Skaug 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 Lyn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Kristaps Grabovskis

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

No hiding place for Frank Stople

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frank Stople, and the manager let it.

In brief