The Odd Post
Market1 Jan 2035
Giorgos Charalampoglou has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Odd they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Giorgos Charalampoglou is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Odd will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Tempers go at Odd
Samuel Skree Skjeldal 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.
Market1 Jan 2035
Stefan Haaland steps up from the Odd academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefan Haaland has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market1 Jan 2035
One of our own: Martin Odegaard joins the Odd first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Odegaard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market1 Jan 2035
Mathias Singh steps up from the Odd academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mathias Singh has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad1 Jan 2035
Odd are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout1 Jan 2035
No hiding place for Thomas Bentley-Waite
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Bentley-Waite, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Jan 2035
The formation has left Thomas Bentley-Waite behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Odd will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Kristian Rodgers Holte plays
- The dugout A door opens for Magnus Dalager
- The dugout David Djédjé asks for a word with the manager