The Aalesund Chronicle
Boardroom8 Sep 2031
Thorgan Doku has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Aalesund can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market8 Sep 2031
Mattéo Nkurunziza has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Aalesund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market8 Sep 2031
Leandro Pisu hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Aalesund can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Sep 2031
A falling-out at Aalesund
Attila Szalai and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Sep 2031
A row about effort at Aalesund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isak Tånnander was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad8 Sep 2031
Mathias Lien is the division's best young player this month
At 17 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Aalesund will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Market8 Sep 2031
No place for Isak Tånnander in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Isak Tånnander has his answer from Aalesund; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad8 Sep 2031
A muscle injury sidelines Nataniel Hjelle for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Aalesund will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom8 Sep 2031
103% of the income goes out in wages at Aalesund
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
- Market Still no ink between Aalesund and Joel Priego
- The dugout The manager's exit leaves Attila Szalai exposed
- Boardroom Aalesund have to sell first