Gustav Nyheim 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lillestrom, and both men came out saying it was fine.
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lillestrom lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Gustav Nyheim is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
SquadWords at Lillestrom training over how hard people work
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lillestrom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Lillestrom training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ylldren Ibrahimaj 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 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 paperwork is done long before the player is. Simo Lampinen-Skaug has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Lillestrom have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lillestrom this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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 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.