Jonas Singh

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Aalesund U20
17 Jul 2033
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jonas Singh

320 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

13 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 terraces

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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
Back issues
319 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

6 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Attila Szalai out for 54 days

54 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.

Boardroom

Aalesund put the manager on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

A fracture rules Jonas Singh out for 22 days

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Aalesund

Attila Szalai 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of David Amdam

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Martin Poulsen is the division's best young player this month

At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Aalesund will try very hard not to make too much of it.

Market

Sander Kartum told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sander Kartum has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Aalesund.

The dugout

The manager's exit leaves Attila Szalai exposed

Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Attila Szalai is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.

Market

Talks stall between Aalesund and Sigurjón Mogensen

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

299 Edition

The Aalesund Chronicle

19 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Attila Szalai damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Aalesund taken apart

0‑3 to KFUM Oslo, 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.

Market

Rafael Tresaco puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Aalesund, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Aalesund

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Market

One of our own: Jonas Singh joins the Aalesund first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonas Singh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Aalesund promote Vegard Bjorkan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vegard Bjorkan 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.

Market

One of our own: Stefan Riise joins the Aalesund first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan Riise is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

A row about effort at Aalesund

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hugo Colella was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Inquest at Aalesund

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

  • Squad Words exchanged at Aalesund
  • Squad 9 new faces, and Aalesund are still learning each other
  • The dugout The view from the dugout