Marked for Emil Ceïde
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Aslak Fonn Witry 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Rosenborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Faye Lund 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Rosenborg
10 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.38 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Rosenborg had the best player on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mads Bomholt
“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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match26 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Rosenborg?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Molde? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
12 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Upbeat
Match17 Sep 2026
Rosenborg do the business in Europe
1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Rosenborg came through the finding-out well against KuPS.
Match16 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Rosenborg
1‑2 against Valerenga, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Gustavo Varela, 21, 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 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aleksander Borgersen. 2‑1 against Aalesund, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 21 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.
Squad21 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Emil Ceïde was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.32. 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.
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Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Jesper Reitan-Sunde, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92
A mark of 7.92 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Rosenborg do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Emil Ceïde. 1‑0 against Stabaek, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Emil Ceïde at his very best
Marked 8.53. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rosenborg.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Rosenborg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Faye Lund 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Rosenborg game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lillestrom runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julian Faye Lund, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde
Successful dribbles: 62. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santeri Väänänen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match5 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Rosenborg do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ole Selnæs 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Magnus Westergaard has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Rosenborg have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Emil Ceïde named player of the month
The award goes to Emil Ceïde, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Julian Faye Lund 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Emil Ceïde named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Emil Ceïde is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Rosenborg, another week without a signature from Tin Plavotić.
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Match29 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ole Selnæs in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Kristian Eriksen has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Rosenborg have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad31 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Odd are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Rosenborg will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Rosenborg
10 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ole Selnæs 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Viking came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Aug 2026
A 3‑0 win over Sandefjord, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Gustavo Varela takes the afternoon — 8.17
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gustavo Varela provided it, and the 8.17 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jesper Reitan-Sunde, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.13
A mark of 8.13 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Molde will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Eirik Haugan has pre-agreed a move to Rosenborg, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ole Selnæs, and the manager let it.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Leopold Wahlstedt: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match12 Aug 2026
Rosenborg march on in the cup
Mjondalen are out and Rosenborg go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Morgan Arnstad at 21 — 8.19
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Morgan Arnstad did not need any: 8.19, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santeri Väänänen 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Julian Faye Lund is back at Rosenborg, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Aslak Fonn Witry 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 3‑1, and it was Dávid Ďuriš’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rosenborg.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Peter Reinhardsen has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Rosenborg have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
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Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Mjondalen, and it could have been more.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Emil Ceïde's — 8.45
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.45, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tin Plavotić gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tin Plavotić has just signed for Rosenborg, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rosenborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Rosenborg heard it as anything else.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Elias Hovdahl Sandrød has agreed terms with Odd for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aslak Fonn Witry and Rosenborg agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aslak Fonn Witry 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.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Aalesund come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rosenborg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Aslak Fonn Witry wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Rosenborg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ole Selnæs commits to Rosenborg for another 2 years.
Squad3 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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.64 on the card, and the Rosenborg support went home talking about one name.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Rosenborg
5 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rosenborg, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Mikkel Ceïde
Still no offer on the table, and Mikkel Ceïde’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.