Simone Spinelli

Right Midfielder - Hødd
5 Sep 2036
Friday
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The Hødd Post

19 May 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Marco Castellacci out for 31 days

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

The dugout

Simone Spinelli: 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.” Hødd have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Carlos Almiron is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hødd is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Erling Strandberg

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Oliver Eliassen Aske falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Hødd come up short against Kongsvinger

Kongsvinger left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Hødd

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

The dugout

Ruben Johansen gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Costly mistake from Marcus Eskildsen

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Marcus Eskildsen knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief

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The Hødd Post

31 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Marco Castellacci

86 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hødd lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Sarpsborg 08 tell Hødd: Lars Elyounoussi 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.

Squad

Oliver Eliassen Aske falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

A falling-out at Hødd

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

Boardroom

The borrowing at Hødd reaches $15.8M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $15.8M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout

Kristian Ryerson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Home is on Connor Musah's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hødd are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

Mathias Sorloth is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

Salisu Adamu runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Hødd money.

In brief