The IK Start Gazette
Market10 Apr 2028
Erlend Dahl Reitan 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 The request is on a desk at IK Start, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Jasper Torkildsen stands alone
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A falling-out at IK Start
Erlend Dahl Reitan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A move Ernesto Perin 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. Ernesto Perin is living that version at IK Start, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom10 Apr 2028
5 academy graduates step up at IK Start
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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
A row about effort at IK Start
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesper Cornelius was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces10 Apr 2028
One of their own: Oscar Rosing
He is 18 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Thomas Johansen steps up from the IK Start academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Johansen 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.
Market10 Apr 2028
Kristian Normann steps up from the IK Start academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kristian Normann 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Patrick Berge joins the IK Start first team
- Match Nikolas Koutsakos the difference as IK Start beat Bryne
- The dugout Thomas Pedersen has his say