A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. KFUM Oslo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
6 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.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KFUM Oslo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at KFUM Oslo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brage Skaret 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.
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Ole Haaland was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the KFUM Oslo dressing room was either.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KFUM Oslo can pretend not to have heard.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KFUM Oslo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KFUM Oslo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KFUM Oslo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Magnus Grødem’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and KFUM Oslo needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KFUM Oslo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
4 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.
Emil Ødegaard 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.
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brage Skaret 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.
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KFUM Oslo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Teodor Haltvik has agreed terms with Viking for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KFUM Oslo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KFUM Oslo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amin Nouri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KFUM Oslo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ayoub Aleesami has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Magnus Wolff Eikrem 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.
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KFUM Oslo, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KFUM Oslo can pretend not to have heard.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KFUM Oslo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Emil Ødegaard has agreed terms with Brann for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
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.
Marked 7.10. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at KFUM Oslo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amin Nouri 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
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.” Ole Haaland chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Robin Rasch
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Leo Östman, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“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 KFUM Oslo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Wilhelm Ärlig has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means KFUM Oslo have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AGF have kept their man, and KFUM Oslo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
5 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Brann were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Ole Haaland could afford to be generous.
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
$38.0K was the most the club would pay and Kristiansund were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KAA Gent have kept their man, and KFUM Oslo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Teodor Haltvik 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.
In brief
Squad14 new faces, and KFUM Oslo are still learning each other
Odd go through and KFUM Oslo go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The deal that would have taken Emil Ødegaard to Stromsgodset has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to KFUM Oslo with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. David Hickson was one of the reasons people came, and $310.0K does not replace that by itself.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 26 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $350.0K — a club that wants Leander Alvheim enough to be asked twice.
Emil Ødegaard 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 last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. KFUM Oslo have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The offer from Stromsgodset for Emil Ødegaard was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The phone has started ringing about David Hickson again, and this time the name on the line is Mjondalen. KFUM Oslo are listening politely and promising nothing.
$300.0K on the table at Kristiansund. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Magnus Wolff Eikrem 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.
Niklas Jensen Wassberg was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $540.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.