Marked for Atli Barkarson
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match8 May 2027
Still nobody has beaten Sogndal
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match5 May 2027
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Fábio Sturgeon obliged against Lyn. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Sogndal.
Squad10 May 2027
A fracture rules Ronney Onyango out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sogndal will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings10 May 2027
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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Fábio Sturgeon, 33, rolls back the years — 8.11
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.11 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match8 May 2027
Sogndal make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
The terraces10 May 2027
He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout10 May 2027
Even Hovland 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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
7.21, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Sogndal had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Back issues
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Steady
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Window shuts: 2 in, 3 out at Sogndal
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Sogndal
Nana Boakye 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sogndal can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets5 Apr 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Asteras have kept their man, and Sogndal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Sogndal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Atli Barkarson 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.
Market5 Apr 2027
“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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I watch every Sogndal game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ranheim runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tuomas Pippola, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Sogndal will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Sogndal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasper Skaanes 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.
Transfer targets15 Mar 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brondby have kept their man, and Sogndal go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sogndal can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Market15 Mar 2027
The Lars Jendal talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sogndal know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Sogndal would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A wage question at Sogndal
Kasper Skaanes has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sogndal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Sogndal are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Market14 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lars Jendal’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Lars Jendal has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Lars Jendal has written the date down.
Market14 Dec 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Sogndal money.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Kasper Skaanes has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Sogndal that is a harder question to answer.
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Market30 Nov 2026
Martin Høyland has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sogndal they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Sogndal are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Sogndal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kasper Skaanes 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Diogo Brás 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sander Granheim, and the manager let it.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Kasper Skaanes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sogndal say nothing, which says plenty.