The Valerenga Gazette
Boardroom4 Dec 2028
Valerenga are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Sebastian Jensen gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sebastian Jensen has just signed for Valerenga, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Words at Valerenga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henrik Skogvold 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Magnus King steps up from the Valerenga academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Magnus King 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Valerenga promote Mathias Meling from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mathias Meling 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Alexander Pedersen steps up from the Valerenga academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexander Pedersen 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.
Market4 Dec 2028
Thomas Elyounoussi steps up from the Valerenga academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thomas Elyounoussi 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.
Squad4 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at Valerenga
Petter Strand and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout4 Dec 2028
A promise honoured for Mohamed Ofkir
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Valerenga told Mohamed Ofkir something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- The dugout Brice Ambina gets picked when it counts
- Squad Valerenga have started building around Taha Usman
- The dugout Haakon Sørum asks for a word with the manager