Marked for David Edvardsson
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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Tromso told Daniel Braut something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Vince Osuji 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match31 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Molde defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Ieltsin Camões keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tromso say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Tromso will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
Market2 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Abderrahmane Sarr may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tromso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tromso
Vegard Erlien and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market26 Oct 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Vetle Skjærvik has his answer from Tromso; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tromso are still strangers to each other
11 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 dugout26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Daniel Braut
Nobody at Tromso is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Molde next, and one man in the Tromso dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad28 Sep 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 Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Daniel Braut 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Edvardsson. 1‑0 against Sarpsborg 08, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Tromso 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Vegard Bohinen, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Heine Åsen Larsen’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Tromso needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Troy Nyhammer at 20 — 8.00
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Troy Nyhammer did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match12 Sep 2026
Mjondalen made Tromso work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Isak Vådebu
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.62 — 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Vegard Bohinen, on a 3‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
Aalborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tromso did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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 Tromso, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
7.92, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Edvardsson. 1‑0 against Sandefjord, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tromso
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Vegard Bohinen on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Leon Hien
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Tromso
1‑4 against Bodo/Glimt, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ruben Yttergård Jenssen and Tromso agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Tromso dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lars Olden Larsen 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tromso are still strangers to each other
19 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vegard Bohinen after 1‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.