The Kristiansund Sentinel
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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 dugout11 Jan 2027
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 dugout11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
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 dugout11 Jan 2027
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
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
- The dugout Adrian Sæther asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom The Kristiansund board put their names to it