From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Chris Sleveland damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market28 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egersund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 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 Egersund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout28 Dec 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 Egersund, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egersund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Egersund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Egersund
Mustapha Abu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egersund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market14 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Martin Håheim-Elveseter 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Phillip Hovland
“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.
Market14 Dec 2026
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Egersund could get for him.
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 Stian Michalsen is on it.
Market14 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen signs something — a contract at Egersund or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A wage question at Egersund
Horenus Tadesse has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Chris Sleveland damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jan Inge Lynum and Egersund agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Sivert Westerlund 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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Kristian Eggen
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Chris Sleveland
51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egersund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market30 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Horenus Tadesse will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Nicolas Pignatel 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isak Jönsson 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
The manager makes an example of Isak Jönsson
“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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout30 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Egersund know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Kristian Eggen 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 Egersund, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
59 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egersund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad23 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 Egersund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Horenus Tadesse
“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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.38, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Egersund had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sander Linnes after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match21 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Egersund?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Aalesund? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Chris Sleveland damages knee ligaments — 66 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 66 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market16 Nov 2026
Herman Kleppa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egersund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Jan Inge Lynum 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Egersund told Kasper Sætherbø something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout16 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 Egersund, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clock does Horenus Tadesse’s negotiating for him
2 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Egersund could ask drops and the wages Horenus Tadesse can ask rise.
The dugout16 Nov 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 Stian Michalsen is on it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
76 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egersund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chris Sleveland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Kongsvinger, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isak Jönsson 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Stian Michalsen and Egersund agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.77 on the card, and the Egersund support went home talking about one name.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Chris Sleveland
83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egersund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Oct 2026
At last: Egersund win one
12 matches without a win, and then this, against Lyn. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market2 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Horenus Tadesse will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jan Inge Lynum. 2‑1 against Lyn, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 19 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.
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.81. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
90 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egersund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Egersund's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egersund has to find a result from somewhere.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a goal for Egersund
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Egersund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Egersund
Scott Vatne and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings26 Oct 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
7.43, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Egersund had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout26 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.” Sander Linnes chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
100 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Egersund lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match17 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Egersund
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Egersund are no longer polite ones.
Market19 Oct 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Herman Kleppa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egersund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Egersund
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sulayman Bojang 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Chris Sleveland
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egersund lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Egersund 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Egersund, another week without a signature from Isak Jönsson.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Raufoss next, and one man in the Egersund dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Stian Michalsen has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Egersund 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Paweł Chrupałła wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Egersund have no good answer.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Egersund
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Egersund are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match5 Oct 2026
Egersund sink to position 14
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen and Egersund agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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 Egersund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Egersund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Egersund
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Egersund's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egersund has to find a result from somewhere.
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolaj Tornvig is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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 Egersund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen, and the manager let it.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to IK Start, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Egersund
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Isak Jönsson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 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 0‑1 Sander Linnes left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Egersund's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egersund has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Herman Kleppa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Herman Kleppa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Egersund
Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 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 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Ranheim will be the happier side with the point.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
IK Start next, and one man in the Egersund dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clock does Horenus Tadesse’s negotiating for him
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Egersund could ask drops and the wages Horenus Tadesse can ask rise.
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Uneasy
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egersund may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Egersund's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egersund 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 Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jonas Bjorkan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Birger Selnaes has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match12 Sep 2026
Egersund rescue it on 91 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 91. Hødd had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
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 Egersund, another week without a signature from Jan Inge Lynum.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egersund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Scott Vatne 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jostein Ekeland and Egersund agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jostein Ekeland is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Hødd in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market7 Sep 2026
4 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Egersund could get for him.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Egersund
A 0‑3 beating by Lillestrom was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Egersund
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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Egersund
Sulayman Bojang 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Egersund
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.
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Crisis
Market24 Aug 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 Egersund can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jostein Ekeland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Egersund's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Egersund has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The window shuts on the Joe Bell deal
Egersund ran out of time with Viking. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jostein Ekeland 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Scott Vatne — 7.65
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.65 beside his name.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Kristiansund wanted more than $430.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bryne have kept their man, and Egersund go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Egersund out
Out, 2‑4 to Stromsgodset, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ranheim waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Egersund is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chris Sleveland will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egersund the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Petter Hokstad, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$3.0M on the table at Viking. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Egersund close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 16 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.7M — a club that wants Joe Bell enough to be asked twice.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Egersund
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Egersund are no longer polite ones.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $1.2M sale of Oscar Kapskarmo
He is going to Tromso, the club has $1.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egersund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Egersund 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 rules permit it and it stings anyway. Horenus Tadesse 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tromso pay $1.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad10 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 Egersund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bryne have kept their man, and Egersund go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kasper Sætherbø commits to Egersund for another 5 years.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egersund they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Egersund have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Herman Kleppa 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $120.0K for Jørgen Bøe
Egersund have gone to Aalesund 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.
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 Egersund this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Egersund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolas Pignatel Jenssen 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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sander Lønning and Egersund agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings3 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.