The Egersund Sentinel
Squad8 Dec 2031
Chinedu Ekene damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom8 Dec 2031
Egersund put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market8 Dec 2031
Álex Serra has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egersund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Dec 2031
Alexander Håpnes has agreed to leave Egersund for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Words exchanged at Egersund
Eric Kitolano 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.
Squad8 Dec 2031
A row about effort at Egersund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dom Jefferies was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom8 Dec 2031
The owner puts $1.4M into Egersund
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Boardroom8 Dec 2031
Egersund cannot sign anybody
The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Egersund count the cost of losing Sander Singh
38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Market Egersund and Jan Inge Lynum are talking past each other
- The dugout Eric Kitolano is still paying for one afternoon at Egersund
- The dugout Gagik Hovhanesyan gets it from the manager