Marked for Keivan Ghaedamini
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
Adnan Hadžić has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Skeid they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Skeid's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Skeid has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Filip Møller Delaveris commits to Skeid for another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Skeid
Kristoffer Ødemarksbakken 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Shola Akinyemi 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 Shola Akinyemi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad9 Nov 2026
One booking too many, and Shola Akinyemi sits out. Skeid lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market19 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Skeid they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Oct 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 Skeid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ranheim left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Olav Øby
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Olav Øby, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Skeid take on the side everybody is chasing
IK Start arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Market19 Oct 2026
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Skeid money.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Amadou Badiane
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Skeid lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Skeid is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Skeid may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Luca Høyland is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Skeid
Sondre Rossbach 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Skeid told Obilor Okeke something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kristoffer Ødemarksbakken trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Skeid training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikkel Wennberg Lindbäck 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Skeid money.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Skeid lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Skeid is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 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 Skeid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Shola Akinyemi 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Mjondalen defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Adnan Hadžić
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adnan Hadžić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Skeid the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Sogndal will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Marius Årøy has pre-agreed a move to Skeid, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad14 Sep 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 Skeid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Keivan Ghaedamini, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Odd take the points off Skeid
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Erling Svensson after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Skeid, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Keivan Ghaedamini has agreed terms with Stromsgodset for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Skeid offered $420.0K; KFUM Oslo said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Skeid
Sondre Rossbach and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Skeid, 1‑0 the final word against Aalesund in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The game went through Adnan Hadžić — 7.38
Marked 7.38 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Skeid 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.45 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Skeid had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Player ratings
Obilor Okeke runs at them all day
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Squad
A row about effort at Skeid
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Skeid they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Sondre Rossbach for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Skeid will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $20.0K — a club that wants Bossman Debra enough to be asked twice.
Squad24 Aug 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 Skeid this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Skeid offered $19.0K; Stabaek said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Tobias Myhre
“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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 6.72 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Mathias Blårud in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Skeid are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.