Thomas Lien

Central Defender - Stabaek
18 May 2033
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The Stabaek Post

28 Mar 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Mar 2033

The knee: Imre Antal Széles out for 39 days

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

Market28 Mar 2033

Azer Kozić asks to leave Stabaek

“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.

Market28 Mar 2033

Azer Kozić is on his way

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

Squad28 Mar 2033

Words exchanged at Stabaek

William Wendt 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.

Squad28 Mar 2033

Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artem Nyzhnyk 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 dugout28 Mar 2033

Thomas Lien 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.

Market28 Mar 2033

The Magnus Lankhof Dahlby story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Magnus Lankhof Dahlby signs something — a contract at Stabaek or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout28 Mar 2033

Alexander Haaland has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Stabaek will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad28 Mar 2033

Country calls for Eduardas Jurjonas

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Stabaek lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

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The Stabaek Post

31 May 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match29 May 2032

A hiding for Stabaek

Beaten 0‑4 by Rosenborg, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad31 May 2032

8 saves: Sondre Rossbach was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad31 May 2032

A falling-out at Stabaek

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

Squad31 May 2032

Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Børkeeiet 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 dugout31 May 2032

Sondre Rossbach 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.

Boardroom31 May 2032

Doors closed at Stabaek

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout31 May 2032

Interim Coach: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout31 May 2032

Martín Aguirregabiria knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Martín Aguirregabiria trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The terraces31 May 2032

The spotlight tightens on Sondre Rossbach

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

In brief