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The Tromso Herald

21 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Tromso

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Tromso is running low.

Market

Hakon Odegaard puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tromso, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Bjorn Daehli

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bjorn Daehli will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tromso the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Giovanni Giunti in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Adam Andersen 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.

The dugout

Alexander Bohinen knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tromso, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Patrick Berge

“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 dugout

Bjorn Daehli is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

The Adam Andersen talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Tromso Herald

17 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

19 days out for Einar Jølle after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tromso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Fredrik Ajer asks to leave Tromso

“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.

Squad

Words at Tromso training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Giovanni Giunti 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Martin Strandberg was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Lillestrom take the points off Tromso

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

The game went through Giovanni Giunti — 6.67

Marked 6.67 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Hakon Odegaard

“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.

Player ratings

Kristian Linnes was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Boardroom

Wages eat 95% of everything Tromso earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief