Andrei Mitrita

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28 Aug 2036
Thursday
Process

Marked for Andrei Mitrita

526 Edition

The Sogndal Courier

25 Aug 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

The Kristiansund deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Frederic Flatz reports back to Sogndal with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market

Rudy Boulais agrees terms with Sandefjord

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Sogndal people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Player ratings

Vintage Lūkass Vapne — 8.09

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.09, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Andrei Mitrita has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sogndal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Frederic Flatz stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Frederic Flatz and Sogndal agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Viljar Stavø comes home

The shirt still fits. Viljar Stavø is back at Sogndal, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Transfer targets

Sogndal baulk at the price for Henrik Meling

Molde wanted more than $13.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Sogndal rebuffed over Aron Johansen

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Haugesund have kept their man, and Sogndal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Sogndal training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Katlego 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.

In brief

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455 Edition

The Sogndal Courier

16 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Rudy Boulais 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 The request is on a desk at Sogndal, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Marcus Eskildsen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcus Eskildsen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sogndal the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Sogndal

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

Squad

Yusuf Faghir 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.

Player ratings

Oscar Sjöstrand runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Jassim Djelloul sends Sogndal past Lyn

It finished 1‑0, and it was Jassim Djelloul’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sogndal.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Yusuf Faghir — 6.53

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.53, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Player ratings

Sam Forsman was the difference for Sogndal

Marked 7.80. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout

Sverre Fauskanger-Lindberg 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.

In brief