Teun Timber

Striker - KV Mechelen
22 Apr 2046
Sunday
Process

Marked for Teun Timber

941 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

8 Aug 2044
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Tomás Müller 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 The request is on a desk at Valerenga, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Valerenga

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Teun Timber is on his way

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

Boardroom

The Valerenga board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad

Francisco Cabeçana signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Francisco Cabeçana commits to Valerenga for another 2 years.

Squad

Francisco Cabeçana 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

Tempers go at Valerenga

Mattia Pellini was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Valerenga against Tromso

0‑2 to Tromso, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Bogdan Stanciu 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.

In brief

Back issues
939 Edition

The Valerenga Gazette

25 Jul 2044
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Valerenga turn down Mjondalen for Marcus Berge

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

Boardroom

Valerenga counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Valerenga now.

Market

Jonas Bohinen has one foot out of the door

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

Match

4 matches without a win for Valerenga

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Valerenga are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Camargo 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 Valerenga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Thiago Vera 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

Valerenga are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

Bodo/Glimt take the points off Valerenga

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom

123% of the income goes out in wages at Valerenga

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief