The Viking Sentinel
Squad17 Dec 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nour Al-Mabhouh
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Viking lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match13 Dec 2035
Viking do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Viking came through the finding-out well against AEL.
Match17 Dec 2035
Viking up to position 2
64 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
Torbjørn Heggem frozen out at Viking
This is not rotation. Torbjørn Heggem has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Viking is pretending otherwise.
The dugout17 Dec 2035
Patrick Elyounoussi says Viking went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market17 Dec 2035
Sander Normann asks to leave Viking
“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.
Market17 Dec 2035
Only the photograph left for Romelu Hazard
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Romelu Hazard will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Viking the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad17 Dec 2035
Tempers go at Viking
Torbjørn Heggem 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.
Squad17 Dec 2035
Words at Viking training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Romano Postema 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
- The dugout When it matters, Romano Postema plays
- Market Still no ink between Viking and Taha Usman
- The dugout The view from the dugout