Aron Lien

Right Midfielder - Kristiansund
5 Sep 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Aron Lien

511 Edition

The Kristiansund Sentinel

12 May 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Iverson Negouai

70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kristiansund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom

The interim tag comes off Interim Coach

Kristiansund interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Match

Hakon King sends Kristiansund through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Hakon King obliged against Sogndal. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Kristiansund.

Squad

Victor Lanlo keeps Kristiansund in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

A hiding for Kristiansund

Beaten 0‑3 by Brann, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

Hakon King wins it after the whistle should have gone

95 minutes played. Hakon King found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Sogndal went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

Adnan Meunier could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.47

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.47, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

The dugout

Atanas Dimitrov keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kristiansund may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Ole Sørdal 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.

In brief

Back issues
495 Edition

The Kristiansund Sentinel

21 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Kristiansund board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Asker Beck is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kristiansund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words at Kristiansund training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Albert 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

Tobias Svendsen 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 Kristiansund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

José Albert 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 Kristiansund, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Sander Kilen linked with a move away

The name of Sander Kilen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kristiansund say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Aron Lien

“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.

Market

Still no signature from José Albert

3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Kristiansund could get for him.

Squad

Competition arrives for Ole Sørdal

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Kristiansund have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

In brief

482 Edition

The Kristiansund Sentinel

22 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Iverson Negouai says Kristiansund 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for David Boison Frimpong

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Boison Frimpong will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kristiansund the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Kristiansund

Abdullahi Mohammad 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.

Squad

Kristian Ryerson 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Kristiansund against Stromsgodset

0‑1 to Stromsgodset, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Victor Christensen was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Victor Christensen

“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.

Looking ahead

A test against the best for Kristiansund

The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Brann.

In brief