Magnar Ødegaard

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19 Jan 2027
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Process

Marked for Magnar Ødegaard

23 Edition

The Sandefjord Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Sandefjord put Patrick Normann on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Sandefjord

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

Market

Evangelos Patoulidis 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 The request is on a desk at Sandefjord, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Lamin Njie: 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.” Sandefjord have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Evangelos Patoulidis 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 Sandefjord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Sandefjord lose Aron Linnes

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

Squad

A row about effort at Sandefjord

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Magnar Ødegaard

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

The dugout

Jakob Dunsby loses the manager who believed in him

A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Jakob Dunsby's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Sandefjord Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Sandefjord 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.

Market

Sandefjord turn down Zamora for Evangelos Patoulidis

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

Squad

A row about effort at Sandefjord

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

Squad

Jakob Vester 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 Sandefjord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Vetle Walle Egeli linked with a move away

The name of Vetle Walle Egeli keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Sandefjord say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Evangelos Patoulidis placed on the list

Sandefjord have made Evangelos Patoulidis available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

A door opens for Ervin Gigović

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.

The dugout

Magnar Ødegaard 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 Sandefjord, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Evangelos Patoulidis

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Evangelos Patoulidis has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

21 Edition

The Sandefjord Sentinel

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Sandefjord

Position 15 and 7 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.

Squad

Jakob Dunsby 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.

Squad

Filip Loftesnes-Bjune 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 Sandefjord this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

The Jakob Dunsby question follows Sandefjord around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jakob Dunsby’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The terraces

Supporters make their feelings known about Evangelos Patoulidis

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Sandefjord would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

The dugout

Ridouan Essaeh 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 Ridouan Essaeh has written the date down.

The dugout

Magnar Ødegaard 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 Sandefjord, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Evangelos Patoulidis has been watched

Rosenborg had somebody in the stand with a notebook, and he was not there for the pies. Watching is free; the next step is not.

The dugout

Elias Hadaya keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Elias Hadaya plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief

7 Edition

The Sandefjord Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

8 matches without a win for Sandefjord

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Sandefjord are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Jakob Dunsby was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 26. 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

4 matches without a goal for Sandefjord

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Mathias Sauer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathias Sauer and Sandefjord agree another 4 years.

Squad

Words at Sandefjord training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vetle Walle Egeli 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

A bad afternoon for Sandefjord against Aalesund

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

The dugout

Mathias Sauer 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

Patrick Normann faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Patrick Normann after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Ridouan Essaeh dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief