The Viking Sentinel
Market13 Sep 2027
Sondre Bjørshol has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Viking they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A move Dennis Bakke Gaustad would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dennis Bakke Gaustad is living that version at Viking, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Erik Botheim is carrying Viking
18 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Viking
Martin Ove Roseth 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Viking are at home on the road
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Market13 Sep 2027
Henrik Lien steps up from the Viking academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henrik Lien has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Patrick Normann joins the Viking first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Normann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Sep 2027
Viking promote Birger Normann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Birger Normann 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Viking find a way past Sogndal
Sogndal made Viking work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Squad 200 appearances for Håkon Evjen
- Looking ahead The big one: Rosenborg come into view
- Player ratings Erik Botheim was on a different afternoon to everybody else