Sander Marthinussen

Defensive Midfielder - Mjondalen
26 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Sander Marthinussen

57 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

37 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Mjondalen are in real trouble now

Position 16, 0 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

A hiding for Mjondalen

Beaten 1‑5 by Bodo/Glimt, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Sander Marthinussen hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mjondalen

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Transfer targets

Failed medical for Sondre Bjørshol

The deal with Viking died in the treatment room. Nobody will say what was found and everybody in the game will find out by Friday.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Mjondalen and Bodo/Glimt in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work
  • Boardroom Nobody left the Mjondalen dressing room in a hurry
  • The dugout Morten Ajer answers for it
Back issues
53 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Mjondalen

33 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Mjondalen sink to position 16

0 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

Mjondalen taken apart

1‑4 to Stabaek, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Sander Marthinussen 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 Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Mjondalen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Mjondalen is running low.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Marcus Linnes will not be coming to Mjondalen

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Molde is saying, and nobody at Mjondalen is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Raphael Kofler

Mjondalen asked and Südtirol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

52 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

32 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Anders Kristiansen

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Transfer targets

$300.0K settles it between the clubs for Sondre Bjørshol

Viking have accepted the money. What Mjondalen do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Mjondalen against Stromsgodset

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

Squad

Kweku Kekeli 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.

Looking ahead

Everything rides on Stabaek

Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Mjondalen know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Morten Ajer left the room before anybody could ask which.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen try to borrow Marcus Linnes

Molde have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

45 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Mjondalen

25 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Mjondalen

Position 16 and 0 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

The dugout

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Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Match

IK Start take the points off Mjondalen

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

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

The dugout

Morten Ajer answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Benjamin Sundo

“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.

Squad

Mjondalen take the armband off Sander Marthinussen

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

In brief

37 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Mjondalen's wait for a win

16 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mjondalen has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

A hiding for Mjondalen

Beaten 1‑4 by Stromsgodset, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Match

Mjondalen leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kweku Kekeli 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.

Match

No time for Stromsgodset to settle

The goal that put Stromsgodset ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Mjondalen equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Mjondalen dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Morten Ajer answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

31 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Mjondalen boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

The knee: Márcio Oliveira out for 22 days

22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mjondalen lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Oliver Midtgård asks to leave Mjondalen

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson

Mjondalen asked and FH said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Sander Marthinussen

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

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Christian Mork Breivik's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen try to borrow Frederik Carstensen

Sarpsborg 08 have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

30 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Mjondalen board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Márcio Oliveira

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

Market

Lillestrom come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets

Mjondalen rebuffed over Kristoffer Askildsen

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Viking have kept their man, and Mjondalen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

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

Squad

Tobias Bjørnebye 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.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen ask about Preslav Bachev

A loan enquiry to Arda: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

A door opens for Tord Salte

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

26 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Mjondalen board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

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

The dugout

Benjamin Sundo 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 Mjondalen, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

24 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Jonas Bruusgaard 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.

Market

Martin Singh steps up from the Mjondalen academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Martin 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.

Squad

Stian Meling out for 31 days

The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Stian Meling, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Sander Marthinussen

“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.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Bjørnebye 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.

Squad

Márcio Oliveira signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Márcio Oliveira commits to Mjondalen for another 3 years.

In brief

23 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Mjondalen

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Mjondalen is running low.

Boardroom

Mjondalen spell it out for Morten Ajer

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Morten Ajer has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Oliver Midtgård hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mjondalen can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Mansour Gueye 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 Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Christian Mork Breivik is still paying for one afternoon at Mjondalen

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market

Mjondalen buy the years ahead of Márcio Oliveira

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

Mansour Gueye without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Mansour Gueye was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

Squad

Márcio Oliveira is a square peg at Mjondalen

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

17 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Mjondalen sink to position 16

4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mjondalen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Mathias Bringaker is on his way

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

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

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

The dugout

Peder Klausen 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.

In brief

16 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Mansour Gueye 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.

Squad

Benjamin Sundo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benjamin Sundo commits to Mjondalen for another 3 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Nickolay Årsbog

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

Squad

Patrik Iliev is a square peg at Mjondalen

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen 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 Sander Marthinussen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Oliver Midtgård placed on the list

Mjondalen have made Oliver Midtgård available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

A door opens for Tobias Flem

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

The Kweku Kekeli talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mjondalen know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

14 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

15 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

Anger at Mjondalen spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Mjondalen

A 1‑5 beating by Viking was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

6 goals as Mjondalen and Viking go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Mjondalen and Viking, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings

Anders Hiim was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Match

No clean sheets in sight for Mjondalen

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Squad

A row about effort at Mjondalen

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

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Mjondalen dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

12 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

13 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

Market

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Peder Klausen: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Mjondalen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

Oliver Midtgård’s goal not enough for Mjondalen

Oliver Midtgård scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Haugesund, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Tempers go at Mjondalen

Kweku Kekeli 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 dugout

No hiding place for Anders Kristiansen

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

Squad

Benjamin Sundo 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 dugout

Morten Ajer faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Morten Ajer after 2‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Linus Alperud was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 12. 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.

In brief

10 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

11 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ware Peter Natana

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

Squad

Anders Kristiansen keeps Mjondalen in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Anders Hiim for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Mjondalen will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Words exchanged at Mjondalen

Anders Hiim 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.

The dugout

Sander Marthinussen 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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Morten Ajer chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Player ratings

Linus Alperud runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Mjondalen draw a blank against Odd

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Odd defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

6 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

8 saves: Anders Kristiansen was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match

7 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen rebuffed over Srđan Hrstić

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Altach have kept their man, and Mjondalen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Mjondalen training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kweku Kekeli 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.

Match

Mjondalen rescue it on 92 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. Valerenga had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

Tobias Flem 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.

Squad

A step back for Sander Marthinussen at Mjondalen

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Match

Mjondalen share the spoils with Valerenga

A 1‑1 draw with Valerenga leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Kweku Kekeli is still paying for one afternoon at Mjondalen

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad Anders Hiim moves up the pecking order
  • The dugout The plan did not have a place for Benjamin Sundo
3 Edition

The Mjondalen Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Mjondalen out of the cup

Rosenborg ended it 1‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

Anders Kristiansen keeps Mjondalen in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 16 in, 0 out at Mjondalen

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Mjondalen turn down Sarpsborg 08 for Mathias Bringaker

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Julian Faye Lund due for a Mjondalen medical

Everything agreed with Bodo/Glimt, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Match

4 matches without a win for Mjondalen

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mjondalen are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Mathias Bringaker signs for Molde while still at Mjondalen

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mathias Bringaker has agreed terms with Molde for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen rebuffed over Aimar Sher

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sarpsborg 08 have kept their man, and Mjondalen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Jonas Bruusgaard 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 Mjondalen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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The Mjondalen Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Oliver Midtgård scores twice — 8.57

Two goals and a mark of 8.57 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

Mjondalen bid $610.0K for Linus Alperud

The offer went to Lillestrom this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Sander Marthinussen stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Sander Marthinussen and Mjondalen agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Mjondalen

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

Squad

Kweku Kekeli 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.

Match

Mjondalen refuse to lose to Stabaek

A point taken on 95 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.

Match

Mjondalen and Stabaek take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Market

49 months and counting on Peder Klausen

Still no offer on the table, and Peder Klausen’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

17 new faces, and Mjondalen are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief