Marked for Dávid Ďuriš
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Match21 Nov 2026
After 13 games, Rosenborg finally taste it again
The first defeat in 13 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against HamKam; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Mathias Kjølø and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match21 Nov 2026
HamKam left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leopold Wahlstedt, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Both jobs done by Iver Fossum — 6.66
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 10 actions, 6.66, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Dávid Ďuriš has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rosenborg 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Simen Bolkan Nordli’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Chances created: 7. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
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Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rosenborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match7 Nov 2026
The run at home goes on for Rosenborg
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match7 Nov 2026
Rosenborg cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Aslak Fonn Witry and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
KFUM Oslo made Rosenborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Emil Ceïde
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Patrick Sorloth kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
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Match24 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Iver Fossum took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Rosenborg tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Iver Fossum takes the afternoon — 8.39
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Iver Fossum provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.
Match24 Oct 2026
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Dávid Ďuriš did the work nobody counts — 6.53
11 combined actions and 6.53. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.21 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad26 Oct 2026
10 new faces, and Rosenborg are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Match14 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Viking, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Rosenborg do not lose
10 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rosenborg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 20 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Rosenborg make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad19 Oct 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Dino Islamović
“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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Rosenborg support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.25 on the card, and the Rosenborg support went home talking about one name.
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Match3 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 20 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Rosenborg
Mathias Kjølø 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
The game went through Iver Fossum — 6.68
Marked 6.68 on 11 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The award goes to Dino Islamović, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Aslak Fonn Witry is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nobody at Rosenborg 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match3 Oct 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 Sandefjord? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mikkel Ceïde
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikkel Ceïde will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leopold Wahlstedt, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Both jobs done by Iver Fossum — 6.85
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 6.85, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jesper Reitan-Sunde and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.66. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Rosenborg, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Simen Bolkan Nordli is on it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Kristiansund in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Dávid Ďuriš story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dávid Ďuriš signs something — a contract at Rosenborg or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes Emil Ceïde a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Rosenborg. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tomáš Nemčík goes off with his country
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Rosenborg would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
Market7 Sep 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Rosenborg could get for him.
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Triumph
Match26 Aug 2026
Rosenborg march on in the cup
Moss are out and Rosenborg go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Aleksander Borgersen did not need any: 8.12, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Rosenborg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Rosenborg will try again when the window opens; Bodo/Glimt may not be selling by then.
Market31 Aug 2026
Rosenborg say no — this time
The offer from Kongsvinger for Mark Mampassi 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Viking will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Henrik Bjørdal 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Dávid Ďuriš’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Rosenborg.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
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Player ratings
The game went through Iver Fossum — 7.24
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Squad
8 new faces, and Rosenborg are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market10 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Amin Chiakha had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rosenborg say no — this time
The offer from Bryne for Dávid Ďuriš 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
$5.5M was the most the club would pay and Red Star 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Viking 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $343.2K — a club that wants Jonas Torsvik enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Ceïde and Rosenborg agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Rosenborg
Ole Selnæs 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.
Market10 Aug 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Dávid Ďuriš ran the middle of the pitch — 6.33
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 13 combined actions and a mark of 6.33, and not one of them will make a highlights package.