The IK Start Gazette
Match10 Apr 2027
IK Start taken apart
1‑4 to Sogndal, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Jasper Torkildsen: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” IK Start have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Erlend Dahl Reitan signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Erlend Dahl Reitan and IK Start agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at IK Start
Mikael Ugland 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.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Graduation day at IK Start
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets12 Apr 2027
PSV tell IK Start: Mikkel Bro Hansen is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
No hiding place for John Olav Norheim
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to John Olav Norheim, and the manager let it.
Market12 Apr 2027
IK Start promote Patrick Odegaard from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick 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.
Market12 Apr 2027
IK Start promote Tobias Bohinen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tobias Bohinen 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mathias Riise joins the IK Start first team
- Player ratings Nikolas Koutsakos ran the middle of the pitch — 6.42
- Match No time for Sogndal to settle