Eirik Holmen

Goalkeeper - Sarpsborg 08
26 Sep 2026
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8 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Sondre Sørli

Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market21 Sep 2026

Marius Lode is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sarpsborg 08 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Sarpsborg 08

Aimar Sher and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Sarpsborg 08 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Reinhardsen 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Olaus Skarsem rescues a point for Sarpsborg 08

It needed Olaus Skarsem to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Valerenga, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Eirik Wichne knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Eirik Wichne trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Half-satisfied: Fredrik Singh on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Sarpsborg 08 pick somebody else ahead of Sigurd Rosted

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market21 Sep 2026

The clock does Peter Reinhardsen’s negotiating for him

3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Sarpsborg 08 could ask drops and the wages Peter Reinhardsen can ask rise.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market14 Sep 2026

Only the photograph left for Peter Reinhardsen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Peter Reinhardsen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sarpsborg 08 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Sondre Sørli beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Sarpsborg 08

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Peter Reinhardsen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Sarpsborg 08

Claus Niyukuri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match12 Sep 2026

A bad afternoon for Sarpsborg 08 against Bodo/Glimt

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

The dugout14 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Aleksander Melgalvis

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

Market14 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Sarpsborg 08 and Eirik Wichne

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Fredrik Singh: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Eivind Willumsen 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 Sarpsborg 08, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

6 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Only the photograph left for Eirik Wichne

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eirik Wichne will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sarpsborg 08 the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Eirik Wichne was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Eirik Wichne has agreed to leave Sarpsborg 08 for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Sarpsborg 08

Peter Reinhardsen 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

6 unbeaten for Sarpsborg 08

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Sarpsborg 08 did not have in the autumn.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Mamour N'Diaye is the month’s best young player

At 20 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Sarpsborg 08 will try not to make too much of it.

Match5 Sep 2026

Sarpsborg 08 refuse to lose to Lillestrom

A point taken on 93 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Market7 Sep 2026

Sarpsborg 08 and Peter Reinhardsen are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Player of the month: Daniel Karlsbakk

Four weeks in which nobody in the division did his job better. The award goes on a shelf and the player goes back into the side, which is the order Sarpsborg 08 prefer.

In brief

5 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Eirik Wichne runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market31 Aug 2026

Magnar Ødegaard is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sarpsborg 08 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Peter Reinhardsen has agreed to leave Sarpsborg 08 for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Sarpsborg 08 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Peter Reinhardsen 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Sarpsborg 08

Eivind Willumsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Andreas Nibe

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match29 Aug 2026

Sarpsborg 08 find a way past Molde

Molde made Sarpsborg 08 work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Sarpsborg 08 are still strangers to each other

17 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Daniel Karlsbakk stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.62 on the card, and the Sarpsborg 08 support went home talking about one name.

In brief