Mathias Meling

Right Forward - Brann U18
15 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Mathias Meling

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The Brann Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vetle Dragsnes

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

Match

Brann up to position 2

35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Boardroom

Brann go back to the board over Eirik Åsvestad

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $384.7K — a club that wants Eirik Åsvestad enough to be asked twice.

Match

Nobody wants to play Brann 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.

Player ratings

The game went through Bård Finne — 7.40

Marked 7.40 on 12 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The terraces

One of their own: Mathias Meling

He is 15 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Brann find a way past Fredrikstad

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

Player ratings

Ulrik Mathisen beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Loan watch

Nana Boakye has seen enough of Kecskeméti TE

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Brann, and 3 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

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The Brann Post

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Chastening afternoon for Brann

A 0‑3 beating by Rosenborg was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A falling-out at Brann

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

The dugout

Fredrik Pallesen Knudsen 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.

Match

After 4 games, Brann finally taste it again

The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Rosenborg; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Brann

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Loan watch

Markus Haaland has seen enough of Stjarnan

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Brann, and 0 appearances in 8 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Ruben Odegaard: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

Mathias Meling stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mathias Meling and Brann agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

Sævar Atli Magnússon has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Brann will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief