Adrian Sæther

Goalkeeper - Kristiansund
10 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Adrian Sæther

24 Edition

The Kristiansund Sentinel

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The step up is real for Moctar Diop

At 22 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.

Squad

Alexander Munksgaard 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 Kristiansund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Kristiansund training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leo Fuhr Hjelde 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.

Squad

The formation has left Eirik Blikstad behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kristiansund will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Tobias Svendsen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Kristiansund 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.

The dugout

Haakon Haugen gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

The Wilfred George question follows Kristiansund around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Wilfred George’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

A door opens for Dan Peter Ulvestad

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Eirik Blikstad joins Kristiansund on a free

No fee and no drama: Eirik Blikstad has signed at Kristiansund, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Kristiansund Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kristiansund turn down Burnley for Mustapha Isah

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Moctar Diop is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Kristiansund will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

The dugout

Adrian Sæther says Kristiansund went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Kristiansund

Alexander Munksgaard 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.

Squad

Júlíus Mar Júlíusson is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

David Tufekçiç signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Tufekçiç commits to Kristiansund for another 3 years.

The dugout

When it matters, Moctar Diop plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Júlíus Mar Júlíusson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Júlíus Mar Júlíusson, and the manager let it.

Market

The Alexander Munksgaard talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kristiansund know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief