Patrick Ajer

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Valerenga U18
31 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Patrick Ajer

142 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

16 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ole Sæter breaks a bone — 77 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 77 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Patrick Ajer out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Patrick Ajer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

At last: Valerenga win one

7 matches without a win, and then this, against Aalesund. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

Tempers go at Valerenga

Ghayas Zahid was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Valerenga

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

Boardroom

Valerenga still without a manager

11 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Match

Brayan Gil sends Valerenga past Aalesund

It finished 1‑0, and it was Brayan Gil’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Valerenga.

Player ratings

Brayan Gil stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Valerenga support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Aaron Kiil Olsen

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
105 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Valerenga sell their best player to Zamalek

$19.7M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Market

Martin Meling agrees terms with Mjondalen

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Valerenga people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $19.7M sale of Helinho

He is going to Zamalek, the club has $19.7M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Player ratings

Brice Ambina was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Valerenga

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

Market

Business is business: Stian Sjøvold goes

Molde paid $720.0K and Valerenga took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Goal number 100 for Brayan Gil

100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Squad

Words at Valerenga training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brice Ambina is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Brayan Gil the difference as Valerenga beat Aalesund

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Brayan Gil. 1‑0 against Aalesund, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief