The Molde Chronicle
Squad3 Dec 2029
Steffen Lie Skålevik damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
Market3 Dec 2029
Trent Kone-Doherty is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Molde is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Molde lose Patrick Bohinen
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad3 Dec 2029
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birk Risa 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.
Squad3 Dec 2029
A falling-out at Molde
Eirik Haugan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom3 Dec 2029
Frederik Sørensen will join Molde for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Frederik Sørensen has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Molde have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout3 Dec 2029
Emil Breivik gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Emil Breivik is on it.
Market3 Dec 2029
Talks stall between Molde and Eirik Haugan
“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.
Market3 Dec 2029
No place for Sondre Bjørshol in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Sondre Bjørshol has his answer from Molde; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- The dugout Stefan Odegaard asks for a word with the manager
- Market Molde pick up Magnus Westergaard for nothing
- The dugout The manager makes Rasmus Sandberg a promise