The Brann Post
Match24 Nov 2031
The view from the top for Brann
72 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market24 Nov 2031
Sævar Atli Magnússon has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Brann they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Nov 2031
Ole-Didrik Blomberg 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.
Squad24 Nov 2031
A falling-out at Brann
Jesper Robertsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Nov 2031
Brann count the cost of losing Jonas Odegaard
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout24 Nov 2031
Ole-Didrik Blomberg has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brann 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.
The dugout24 Nov 2031
The manager makes an example of Axel Kayombo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout24 Nov 2031
Dion Beljo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market24 Nov 2031
The Noah Holm question follows Brann around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Noah Holm’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Loan watch Nobody is scoring past Balázs Tóth at AGF
- The dugout The manager makes Henrik Meister a promise
- Loan watch Elliot Lavlund first choice at Stabaek