Marked for Markus Naglestad
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
145 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rosenborg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ole Selnæs breaks a bone — 50 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match28 Dec 2026
27 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Markus Naglestad: 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.” Rosenborg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ole Selnæs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Rosenborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óscar Valentín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 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 Óscar Valentín is on it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Market28 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mathias Kjølø’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
89 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rosenborg lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Ole Selnæs out for 58 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rosenborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jesper Reitan-Sunde, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
97 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rosenborg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Ole Selnæs out for 66 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rosenborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Dec 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 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Markus Naglestad and Rosenborg agree another 1 years.
The dugout14 Dec 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 Leopold Wahlstedt is on it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Iver Fossum 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 Iver Fossum trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rosenborg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market19 Oct 2026
Mark Mampassi has one foot out of the door
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.
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tobias Dahl is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Leopold Wahlstedt has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Rosenborg
Something was said to Ole Selnæs and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Markus Naglestad, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Óscar Valentín 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 17 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.
Match10 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Markus Naglestad and Rosenborg agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match10 Oct 2026
A goal on 95 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
7.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Rosenborg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.