The Stabaek Post
Market14 Aug 2028
Ayoub Aleesami attracts admirers
The name of Ayoub Aleesami has come up in conversations Stabaek were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market14 Aug 2028
Matteo Donatiello asks to leave Stabaek
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Sunusi Audu in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
Sogndal tell Stabaek: Emanuel Grønner is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Ayoub Aleesami
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market14 Aug 2028
Stabaek promote Lars Sorloth from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lars Sorloth 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.
Market14 Aug 2028
One of our own: Patrick Svensson joins the Stabaek first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Svensson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
Jacob Hanstad in the eights
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Diego Burlacu wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Stabaek can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- Match Late, late show earns Stabaek a point
- Squad 7 new faces, and Stabaek are still learning each other
- Squad Mathias Klausen has had enough of the bench