From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Supporters organise against the Åsane board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match30 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Åsane
Position 15 and 6 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market30 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Åsane they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Åsane training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristoffer Barmen 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ole-Monrad Alme, and the manager let it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Åsane. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market30 Nov 2026
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Åsane could get for him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Åsane, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager plants his flag on Filip Oprea
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Filip Oprea’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
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Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Åsane
15 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Knut Spangelo Haga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Åsane the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Åsane
Kristoffer Barmen 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 dugout23 Nov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Ruben Riise left the room before anybody could ask which.
Market23 Nov 2026
1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Åsane money.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Hassou Diaby 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 Åsane, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Åsane is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Åsane can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Nov 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 Åsane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Kristoffer Barmen 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout16 Nov 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clock does Sebastian Selin’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Åsane could ask drops and the wages Sebastian Selin can ask rise.
The dugout16 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Åsane. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Åsane's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Åsane has to find a result from somewhere.
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Åsane will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Malvin Ingebrigtsen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Åsane the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Åsane
Kristoffer Barmen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nobel Tesfazgyi Gebrezgi commits to Åsane for another 4 years.
Squad9 Nov 2026
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
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. 9 actions, 6.89, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
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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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Åsane
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Åsane are no longer polite ones.
Match2 Nov 2026
Åsane sink to position 16
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at Åsane spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market2 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Åsane they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nobel Tesfazgyi Gebrezgi and Åsane agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match31 Oct 2026
Moss take the points off Åsane
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Åsane's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Åsane has to find a result from somewhere.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ole-Monrad Alme: 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.” Åsane have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Knut Spangelo Haga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Åsane the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Åsane
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristoffer Barmen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Mohamed Yusuf, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Ruben Riise left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Åsane
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Åsane are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Åsane will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sebastian Selin will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Åsane the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Peder Hoel Lervik 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
A row about effort at Åsane
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristoffer Barmen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
14 new faces, and Åsane 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Nobel Tesfazgyi Gebrezgi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Sogndal, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Ruben Riise chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 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 Åsane, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Åsane will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Åsane they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Filip Oprea is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Malvin Ingebrigtsen 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Hassou Diaby 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 Åsane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Brudvik, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sogndal in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Åsane could get for him.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Åsane
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Åsane are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Åsane
Position 16 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Åsane can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Åsane is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Snorre Furnes is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Åsane
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Åsane can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Åsane
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristoffer Barmen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 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 Åsane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Åsane's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Åsane has to find a result from somewhere.
Market28 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Åsane they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 23 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Åsane
Kristoffer Barmen 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Åsane
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Malvin Ingebrigtsen 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kristoffer Barmen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ruben Riise after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Åsane's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Åsane has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Åsane they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Åsane
Kristoffer Barmen 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 Sep 2026
Åsane are still strangers to each other
14 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ruben Riise after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nobody at Åsane 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market14 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 Åsane, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Åsane's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Åsane has to find a result from somewhere.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Åsane is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kristoffer Barmen 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Lillestrom, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market14 Sep 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Åsane they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emanuel Grønner commits to Åsane for another 4 years.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Åsane
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kristoffer Barmen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hassan Mohamed Yusuf, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Åsane, another week without a signature from Kristoffer Barmen.
Market7 Sep 2026
He is 18, and nobody at Åsane signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Åsane will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Einar Iversen 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 Åsane, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Åsane
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Åsane offered $4.0K; Odd said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Match29 Aug 2026
Mjondalen left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Ruben Riise left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout31 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Åsane, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market31 Aug 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Åsane could get for him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Peder Hoel Lervik has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Åsane 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.
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Market24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Åsane's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Åsane has to find a result from somewhere.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Dennis Møller Wolfe has agreed terms with Bryne for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Molde wanted more than $540.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Åsane training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kristoffer Barmen 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Åsane against Odd
0‑2 to Odd, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and Åsane 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Ruben Riise left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Aug 2026
Åsane bow out of the cup
Lillestrom go through and Åsane go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dennis Møller Wolfe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Åsane the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 16 gone
That is the business done at Åsane until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Åsane
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Åsane are no longer polite ones.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$510.0K on the table at Molde. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Odd 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. HamKam have kept their man, and Åsane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Fredrikstad 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Åsane offered $1.5M; Fredrikstad said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.6K — a club that wants Mustapha Abu enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Åsane
Kristoffer Barmen 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fredrikstad have kept their man, and Åsane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Åsane have gone to Egersund with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Ryerson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hassan Mohamed Yusuf has just signed for Åsane, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$540.0K on the table at Brann. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kristiansund have kept their man, and Åsane go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 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 Åsane this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Kristoffer Barmen 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thomas Lotsberg commits to Åsane for another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Einar Iversen
7.40, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Åsane had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.