Patrick Henriksen

Left Forward - Brann U20
11 May 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Patrick Henriksen

153 Edition

The Brann Post

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Sander Odegaard has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Brann can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Match

The small margins put Brann out

Out, 1‑1 to Sogndal, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Boardroom

The Brann board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

Stefan Hagerup keeps Brann in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Patrick Henriksen, 16, steals the show — 7.89

Marked 7.89 at 16, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Stefan Hagerup has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Brann they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Fredrik Pallesen Knudsen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fredrik Pallesen Knudsen commits to Brann for another 2 years.

Squad

Words at Brann training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Sørensen 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Brann

Vetle Dragsnes 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.

In brief

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141 Edition

The Brann Post

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

8 matches without a win for Brann

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Brann are no longer polite ones.

Market

Brann turn down Rosenborg for Noah Holm

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom

Brann write off $2.4M on Anders Bærtelsen

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $2.4M of what Brann paid for Anders Bærtelsen is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

The dugout

Stefan Hagerup keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Brann may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Only the photograph left for Stefan Hagerup

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stefan Hagerup will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Brann the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Noah Holm raises the bar for Brann

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Brann heard it as anything else.

Transfer targets

Axel Aamodt due for a Brann medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match

The goals have deserted Brann

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Brann can tell you which week it ends in.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Brann

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

In brief