Eirik Wichne

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5 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Terms done: Daniel Karlsbakk is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Standard Liege waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Sarpsborg 08 is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad31 Aug 2026

7 saves: Mamour N'Diaye was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Sondre Sørli

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Sarpsborg 08 caught on 91 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Molde scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Too much change too quickly at Sarpsborg 08

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Match29 Aug 2026

Sarpsborg 08 share the spoils with Molde

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

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Half-satisfied: Stefan Haaland 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 dugout31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Håkon Finstad-Vogt

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

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Sarpsborg 08 Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Michael Opoku, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94

A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market3 Aug 2026

Only the photograph left for Magnar Ødegaard

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

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Ole-Monrad Alme due for a Sarpsborg 08 medical

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Mamour N'Diaye signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mamour N'Diaye and Sarpsborg 08 agree another 5 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Sarpsborg 08

Bjørn Inge Utvik 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Odd watching Anders Hiim

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sarpsborg 08 have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match1 Aug 2026

Sarpsborg 08 refuse to lose to Viking

A point taken on 87 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Sarpsborg 08 and Eirik Wichne 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

18 new faces, and Sarpsborg 08 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