Marcus Meling

Defensive Midfielder - Bodo/Glimt
4 Mar 2046
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Marked for Marcus Meling

981 Edition

The Bodo/Glimt Courier

15 May 2045
From our football correspondent Steady

Match10 May 2045

Denis Perrin sends Bodo/Glimt through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Denis Perrin obliged against Aalesund. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Bodo/Glimt.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Both of them Denis Perrin's — 9.01

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.01, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match13 May 2045

Still nobody has beaten Bodo/Glimt

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad15 May 2045

Owen Clasie 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 terraces15 May 2045

Bodo/Glimt supporters have found a favourite in Denis Perrin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Denis Perrin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Miroslav Tsvetanov was immovable

20 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Squad15 May 2045

Bodo/Glimt lose Birger Meling

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad15 May 2045

When it matters, Jakub Snopek plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings15 May 2045

Nothing got past Marcus Meling

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 14 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

In brief

Back issues
979 Edition

The Bodo/Glimt Courier

1 May 2045
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 May 2045

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alessandro De Luca

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

Market1 May 2045

Wesley De Jong 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 Bodo/Glimt, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market1 May 2045

Abdullah Ucar is on his way

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

Squad1 May 2045

Wesley De Jong 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.

Squad1 May 2045

No hiding place for Wesley De Jong

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Wesley De Jong, and the manager let it.

Squad1 May 2045

When it matters, Wilmar Muriel plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings1 May 2045

Nothing got past Jakub Snopek

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Player ratings1 May 2045

Michy Hazard was immovable

15 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Market1 May 2045

Marcus Meling told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Marcus Meling has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bodo/Glimt.

In brief

972 Edition

The Bodo/Glimt Courier

13 Mar 2045
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market13 Mar 2045

Lillestrom come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bodo/Glimt did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad13 Mar 2045

Alessandro De Luca 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.

Market13 Mar 2045

Denis Perrin attracts admirers

The name of Denis Perrin has come up in conversations Bodo/Glimt were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad13 Mar 2045

Silvan Benito gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad13 Mar 2045

Marcus Meling signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marcus Meling and Bodo/Glimt agree another 3 years.

Squad13 Mar 2045

Too much change too quickly at Bodo/Glimt

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief