The Stromsgodset Sentinel
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Bent Sørmo frozen out at Stromsgodset
This is not rotation. Bent Sørmo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Stromsgodset is pretending otherwise.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
When it matters, Gustav Valsvik plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Kreshnik Krasniqi knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Stromsgodset, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 Jan 2029
The Oscar Kapskarmo question follows Stromsgodset around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Oscar Kapskarmo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Victor Dedes remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Stromsgodset would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout8 Jan 2029
Tor Solvoll has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tor Solvoll has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Marcus Mehnert placed on the list
- Squad Andreas Heredia-Randen is put on a programme of his own
- Squad Herman Stengel is training like a man with a point to make
- Squad Sander Henriksen is fit again