Marked for Daniel Eid
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Fredrik Holmé commits to Fredrikstad for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Sigurd Kvile 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Solomon Owusu, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Samuel Leach Holm has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Fredrikstad will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martin Børsheim’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Fredrikstad have no good answer.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Fredrikstad money.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Fredrikstad will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Back issues
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Steady
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ulrik Fredriksen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Fredrikstad the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Øystein Øvretveit 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Leonard Owusu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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 dugout28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.35 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fredrikstad had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Aron Odegaard after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match26 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. HamKam 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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Upbeat
Match12 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad14 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Aleksander Andresen, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.05
A mark of 8.05 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fredrikstad is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Oskar Øhlenschlæger was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.80. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Fredrikstad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Daniel Eid was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brage Kvithyld 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Aron Odegaard on a 3‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
$2.2M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Tromso, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Bodo/Glimt for Johannes Hummelvoll-Nuñez 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$4.8M was the most the club would pay and Ferencvaros 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $2.2M sale of Rocco Robert Shein
He is going to Brann, the club has $2.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$2.2M on the table at Cardiff City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Daniel Eid has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fredrikstad they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ulrik Fredriksen 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Kristiansund this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.