Thomas Meling

Striker - Halmstad
3 Aug 2031
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225 Edition

The Halmstad Courier

18 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market18 Nov 2030

Mathis Konradsen has one foot out of the door

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

Squad18 Nov 2030

Words at Halmstad training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Schyberg 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.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

No hiding place for Luís Sampaio

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luís Sampaio, and the manager let it.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

Issac Dijkhuizen 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 Issac Dijkhuizen is on it.

Market18 Nov 2030

Talks stall between Halmstad and Tachi

“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.

Market18 Nov 2030

Sander Christiansen linked with a move away

The name of Sander Christiansen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Halmstad say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch18 Nov 2030

Malte Persson keeps scoring at Helsingborg

28 appearances away from home and 5 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad18 Nov 2030

“I want to play”: Thomas Meling speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

The dugout18 Nov 2030

Danijel Đurić has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Danijel Đurić has written the date down.

In brief

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215 Edition

The Halmstad Courier

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Sep 2030

The knee: Thomas Isherwood out for 68 days

68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Halmstad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout9 Sep 2030

Magnus Mehl: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Halmstad have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market9 Sep 2030

Zackarias Nilsson asks to leave Halmstad

“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.

Market9 Sep 2030

Magnus Mehl has one foot out of the door

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

Squad9 Sep 2030

A falling-out at Halmstad

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

Squad9 Sep 2030

Justin Roth signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Justin Roth and Halmstad agree another 4 years.

Squad9 Sep 2030

A move Thomas Meling 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. Thomas Meling is living that version at Halmstad, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom9 Sep 2030

Halmstad agree a free transfer for Elliott Andersson

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The dugout9 Sep 2030

No hiding place for Danijel Đurić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danijel Đurić, and the manager let it.

In brief

170 Edition

The Rosenborg Post

29 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 Oct 2029

A fracture rules Aleksander Borgersen out for 17 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rosenborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad29 Oct 2029

A falling-out at Rosenborg

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

Match27 Oct 2029

Whatever happens, Rosenborg do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match27 Oct 2029

Simen Bolkan Nordli sends Rosenborg past Fredrikstad

It finished 1‑0, and it was Simen Bolkan Nordli’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rosenborg.

Squad29 Oct 2029

A row about effort at Rosenborg

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

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

One of those days for Simen Bolkan Nordli

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout29 Oct 2029

No hiding place for Anders Molund

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anders Molund, and the manager let it.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Elias Slørdal stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Elias Slørdal and Rosenborg agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout29 Oct 2029

A promise honoured at Rosenborg

Something was said to Viljar Myhra and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief