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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Sakarias Opsahl out for 79 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brann will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Nov 2026
Rasmus Holten has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Brann they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market30 Nov 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Felix Horn Myhre wants continental football; whether Brann can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Mathisen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Brann
Vetle Dragsnes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Bård Finne 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Brann signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Roy Warholm and Brann agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market30 Nov 2026
Brann have let the market know Niklas Castro can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacob Sørensen
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brann lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
87 days out for Sakarias Opsahl after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Brann will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market23 Nov 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 Brann, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Bård Finne: 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.” Brann have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Brann 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Felix Horn Myhre was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Brann
Fredrik Pallesen Knudsen 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 terraces23 Nov 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Henrik Skogvold at his very best
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Brann.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacob Sørensen
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brann lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Sakarias Opsahl out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Brann will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Brann training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Horn Myhre 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Brann
Bård Finne and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ulrik Mathisen asks for a word with the manager
“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
Denzel De Roeve has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brann 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 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
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Jacob Sørensen signs something — a contract at Brann or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Valerenga next, and one man in the Brann dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacob Sørensen
35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brann lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 unbeaten for Brann
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Brann did not have in the autumn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Mathisen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Brann
Bård Finne 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
The afternoon ran through Noah Holm
Chances created: 11. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Ulrik Mathisen 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 Ulrik Mathisen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Vetle Dragsnes dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout9 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Kristiansund defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
Rasmus Holten has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Brann they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 unbeaten for Brann
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Brann did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Brann training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Horn Myhre 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Noah Holm at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Brann.
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ronas Abdo 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 Brann this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Sarpsborg 08 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
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Upbeat
Market26 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 Brann, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Felix Horn Myhre was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bård Finne 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 Brann this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
Fredrikstad made Brann work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ronas Abdo and Brann agree another 3 years.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nana Boakye 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 dugout26 Oct 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.” Alexander Bjorkan, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.19, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 21 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Mathisen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Brann
Henrik Skogvold 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Henrik Skogvold. 2‑0 against Molde, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Alexander Bjorkan on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 15 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jacob Sørensen commits to Brann for another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Felix Horn Myhre 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.
Squad12 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 Brann this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brann are still strangers to each other
6 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 dugout12 Oct 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Vetle Dragsnes asks for a word with the manager
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Felix Horn Myhre keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Brann say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Simen Vidtun Nilsen has written the date down.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Looking ahead: the trip to Molde
Position 4 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
There were 10 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Rasmus Holten
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rasmus Holten will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Brann the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mathias Klausen is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joachim Soltvedt and Brann agree another 3 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Brann training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Horn Myhre 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Vetle Dragsnes
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
The dugout5 Oct 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 Henrik Skogvold is on it.
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Steady
Match26 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market28 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.07 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Mathisen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
Sogndal will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lars Jendal has pre-agreed a move to Brann, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bård Finne 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 Brann this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Eggert Aron Guðmundsson has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Brann are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 16, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Brann
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Brann are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Felix Horn Myhre 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Brann
Bård Finne and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Felix Horn Myhre asks for a word with the manager
“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
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Alexander Bjorkan was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Brann dressing room was either.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Brann?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Viking? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Denzel De Roeve has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Brann 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Brann know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Hvidovre come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Brann did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Mathisen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
KFUM Oslo will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Emil Ødegaard has pre-agreed a move to Brann, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Brann, another week without a signature from Ulrik Mathisen.
The dugout14 Sep 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 1‑2 Alexander Bjorkan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Chances created: 10. The column nobody reads carried the whole story of the match, and his name was at the top of it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Brann did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Sep 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 Brann can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Rasmus Holten
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rasmus Holten will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Brann the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Rasmus Holten 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Brann
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ulrik Mathisen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Brann
Rocco Robert Shein 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.
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
Too much change too quickly at Brann
6 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.
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Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Brann out
Out, 1‑2 to HamKam, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. HamKam moved on, Sakarias Opsahl reports back to Brann, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Brann training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Felix Horn Myhre 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Felix Vá has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Brann have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Mathias Klausen again, and this time the name on the line is Hvidovre. Brann are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Brann
A 3‑1 win over Odd, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.04 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Eggert Aron Guðmundsson had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market24 Aug 2026
IF Elfsborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Brann did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Kongsvinger moved on, Joachim Soltvedt reports back to Brann, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clock did what Estrela da Amadora would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Joachim Soltvedt has agreed terms with HamKam 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
Brann asked and Haugesund said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Brann
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
Brann march on in the cup
IK Start are out and Brann go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Brann have gone to Estrela da Amadora 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Moscow have kept their man, and Brann go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 16 signed and 17 gone
That is the business done at Brann 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $290.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Viking drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Mads Sande goes
Lyn paid $550.0K and Brann took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Eggert Aron Guðmundsson has come up in conversations Brann were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Brann spend $2.6M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.6M for Henrik Skogvold, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Brann say no — this time
The offer from Valerenga for Ulrik Mathisen 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
The clubs have shaken hands with Fredrikstad; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market10 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Brann sell a favourite for $1.7M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Thore Pedersen was one of the reasons people came, and $1.7M does not replace that by itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Brann have paid $2.2M for Rocco Robert Shein, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Transfer targets10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Thore Pedersen has left for Aalesund in a $1.7M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $333.8K — a club that wants Vetle Auklend enough to be asked twice.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Rosenborg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Brann did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets3 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.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Aalesund have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Thore Pedersen. The answer from Brann has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bård Finne and Brann agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Brann are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ulrik Mathisen 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
Tempers go at Brann
Bård Finne 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.