The Valerenga Gazette
Match8 Aug 2026
A 2-goal lead gone for Valerenga
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Tromso kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Valerenga will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Market10 Aug 2026
Valerenga say no — this time
The offer from Bodo/Glimt for Mathias Grundetjern was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Magnus Westergaard is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Valerenga is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Magnus Westergaard signs for Rosenborg while still at Valerenga
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Magnus Westergaard has agreed terms with Rosenborg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Lucas Ravn-Haren
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oscar Hedvall stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oscar Hedvall and Valerenga agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ivan Näsberg 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 Valerenga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Gustav Erik Stachowski again
The phone has started ringing about Gustav Erik Stachowski again, and this time the name on the line is Molde. Valerenga are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Henrik Bjørdal
“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.
In brief
- Squad Words at Valerenga training over how hard people work
- Market Mjondalen expected to open talks for Omar Bully
- Match Valerenga and Tromso take a point apiece