Dumitru Rogac

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Bentonit Ijevan
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228 Edition

The Bentonit Ijevan Chronicle

9 Dec 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Dec 2030

Braga 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 Bentonit Ijevan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom9 Dec 2030

No signings allowed at Bentonit Ijevan

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Boardroom9 Dec 2030

The Bentonit Ijevan debt reaches $10.7M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

The dugout9 Dec 2030

Marcello Riccardi 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.

Squad9 Dec 2030

Bentonit Ijevan are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout9 Dec 2030

Samuel knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Samuel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market9 Dec 2030

Talks stall between Bentonit Ijevan and Gagik Akulyan

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad9 Dec 2030

Angel Atanasov remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Bentonit Ijevan would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market9 Dec 2030

Still no signature from Gagik Akulyan

1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Bentonit Ijevan could get for him.

In brief

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The Bentonit Ijevan Chronicle

25 Nov 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market25 Nov 2030

Braga puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bentonit Ijevan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad25 Nov 2030

Words exchanged at Bentonit Ijevan

Braga 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.

Squad25 Nov 2030

A move Alexandros Bardas would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alexandros Bardas is living that version at Bentonit Ijevan, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout25 Nov 2030

Vardan Azizyan back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Bentonit Ijevan has worked with Vardan Azizyan before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

The dugout25 Nov 2030

The manager makes an example of Vardan Azizyan

“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.

The dugout25 Nov 2030

Ryad Hachem knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bentonit Ijevan, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad25 Nov 2030

Alexandros Bardas is a square peg at Bentonit Ijevan

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout25 Nov 2030

When it matters, Adam Fisher 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.

Squad25 Nov 2030

Ryad Hachem has company in his position

The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Ryad Hachem keeps the shirt for now, at Bentonit Ijevan's convenience rather than his own.

In brief

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The Bryne Post

22 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings22 Apr 2030

Phoenix Patterson beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout22 Apr 2030

Tor Erik Larsen says Bryne 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.

Match20 Apr 2030

Still nobody has beaten Bryne

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market22 Apr 2030

Johannes Jepsen is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bryne is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match20 Apr 2030

No end in sight to Bryne's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bryne has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad22 Apr 2030

Words exchanged at Bryne

Lars Erik Sødal 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.

Squad22 Apr 2030

Jesper Fiksdal 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.

Boardroom22 Apr 2030

Bryne are $62.5M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Boardroom22 Apr 2030

Wages eat 94% of everything Bryne earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

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The Bryne Post

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Aug 2029

Håvard Nielsen breaks a bone — 135 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match11 Aug 2029

No end in sight to Bryne's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Bryne has to find a result from somewhere.

Match11 Aug 2029

Bryne cannot find the net

7 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Market13 Aug 2029

Dumitru Rogac asks to leave Bryne

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout13 Aug 2029

Viktor Andri Hafþórsson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bryne have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings13 Aug 2029

Nobody could get near Oliver Braude

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom13 Aug 2029

Bryne to lose Eirik Åsvestad for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Eirik Åsvestad 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.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Tempers go at Bryne

Jonathan Harveg 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.

Squad13 Aug 2029

Words at Bryne training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lars Erik Sødal 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.

In brief

153 Edition

The Bryne Post

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Bryne

Vetle Auklend 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.

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

Belts tighten at Bryne

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

Match30 Jun 2029

6 unbeaten for Bryne

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Bryne did not have in the autumn.

Squad2 Jul 2029

A row about effort at Bryne

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lars Erik Sødal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings2 Jul 2029

Nobody could get near Oliver Braude

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout2 Jul 2029

The manager makes an example of Žan Žabkar

“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.

Market2 Jul 2029

Talks stall between Bryne and Mats Thornes

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings2 Jul 2029

Nobody on the pitch touched Vetle Auklend

7.57, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Bryne had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

Intake day at the Bryne academy

7 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

In brief

  • Squad Matthias Gragger named in the team of the month
  • Market Dumitru Rogac told to find a new club
  • The dugout the manager: “We have to be better”