The Aalesund Chronicle
Squad13 Sep 2032
The knee: Attila Szalai out for 47 days
47 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Aalesund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings13 Sep 2032
Elliot Lavlund scores twice — 8.51
Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Jonas Singh breaks a bone — 15 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad13 Sep 2032
Elliot Lavlund 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 Aalesund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2032
Too dear: Aalesund walk away from Kas Nys
$28.0K was the most the club would pay and Sarpsborg 08 were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces13 Sep 2032
One of their own: Elliot Lavlund
He is 23 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.
Match11 Sep 2032
Elliot Lavlund the difference as Aalesund beat Sandefjord
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Elliot Lavlund. 2‑0 against Sandefjord, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad13 Sep 2032
A row about effort at Aalesund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sigurjón Mogensen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market13 Sep 2032
Still no ink between Aalesund and Victor Thorelli
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Aalesund, another week without a signature from Victor Thorelli.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Filippo Costa
- Looking ahead A reunion for Dylan Jones