From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at HamKam
Snorre Strand Nilsen 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Gjone, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at HamKam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aksel Potur was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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
Luc Mares linked with a move away
The name of Luc Mares keeps appearing in other people's back pages. HamKam say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Eron Gojani 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.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
There were 6 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at HamKam
Julian Gonstad 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Rosenborg left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout23 Nov 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 dugout23 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 William Osnes-Ringen is on it.
Market23 Nov 2026
The name of Loris Mettler keeps appearing in other people's back pages. HamKam say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The plan did not have a place for Aksel Potur
Nobody at HamKam 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at HamKam
Julian Gonstad 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Snorre Strand Nilsen 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” William Osnes-Ringen and HamKam agree another 5 years.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
The leaders are next for HamKam
Rosenborg top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The division's best last weekend was a HamKam man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Henrik Udahl was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout16 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.
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
Anders Trondsen 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Rosenborg in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. HamKam will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Henrik Udahl, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad9 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 HamKam this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Henrik Udahl was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.97. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match7 Nov 2026
Henrik Udahl among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Henrik Udahl on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of HamKam and Sandefjord.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 4‑2, and it was Henrik Udahl’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to HamKam.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
He is 20 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at HamKam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aksel Potur 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Morten Strandberg kept it short after the 4‑2 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to HamKam's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at HamKam has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom2 Nov 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Martin Gjone 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at HamKam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aksel Potur 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout2 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Luc Mares
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luc Mares, and the manager let it.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Valerenga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Snorre Strand Nilsen 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 dugout26 Oct 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and HamKam 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Morten Strandberg to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 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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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match14 Oct 2026
HamKam bow out of the cup
Rosenborg go through and HamKam go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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
A falling-out at HamKam
Snorre Strand Nilsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Kristiansund, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcus Sandberg, and the manager let it.
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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. HamKam told Isak Hansen-Aarøen something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Olav Mengshoel is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at HamKam
Snorre Strand Nilsen 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
A row about effort at HamKam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aksel Potur was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody at HamKam 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Kristiansund next, and one man in the HamKam dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason HamKam will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 Oct 2026
No mercy from HamKam
Sarpsborg 08 will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. HamKam were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Henrik Udahl takes the afternoon — 8.91
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Henrik Udahl provided it, and the 8.91 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at HamKam
Julian Gonstad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match4 Oct 2026
6 unbeaten for HamKam
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation HamKam did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Skeid will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Keivan Ghaedamini has pre-agreed a move to HamKam, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Isak Hansen-Aarøen 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at HamKam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Snorre Strand Nilsen 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.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. HamKam will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at HamKam
Julian Gonstad 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at HamKam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilir Kukleci was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Aksel Potur
“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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Match26 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Fredrikstad 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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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason HamKam will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Sep 2026
No mercy from HamKam
Molde will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. HamKam were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Julian Gonstad, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.91
A mark of 8.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Sep 2026
HamKam make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now HamKam have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at HamKam
Julian Gonstad 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.
Boardroom21 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Luc Mares
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason HamKam will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Julian Gonstad, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match12 Sep 2026
HamKam cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Olav Mengshoel is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Boardroom14 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for HamKam, 2‑1 the final word against Brann in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at HamKam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Snorre Strand Nilsen 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.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. HamKam will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
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 HamKam can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nikolas Walstad has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means HamKam have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and HamKam 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at HamKam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and William Osnes-Ringen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and HamKam will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout7 Sep 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 Marcus Sandberg is on it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Snorre Strand Nilsen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 101 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad31 Aug 2026
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup progress for HamKam
A 2‑1 win over Brann, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Market31 Aug 2026
Luc Mares hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what HamKam can pretend not to have heard.
Match26 Aug 2026
Markus Johnsgård wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Markus Johnsgård found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Brann went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market31 Aug 2026
Lyngby come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and HamKam did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Julian Gonstad at 20 — 7.76
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Julian Gonstad did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
No thanks: Ousmane Diao rejects the move
HamKam had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at FC Midtjylland, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at HamKam can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason HamKam will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Aug 2026
HamKam through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Kristiansund, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match22 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for HamKam
A 0‑3 beating by Viking was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Alan Cole, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.97
A mark of 7.97 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kristiansund have kept their man, and HamKam go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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 HamKam can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. HamKam will try again when the window opens; Brann may not be selling by then.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Ben Nelson rejects the move
HamKam had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Leicester City, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Mathias Gjerstrøm has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means HamKam have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
HamKam through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Skeid, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$3.5M settles it between the clubs for Sakarias Opsahl
Brann have accepted the money. What HamKam do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Match12 Aug 2026
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Julian Gonstad decided nobody was going anywhere. Skeid had no time left to answer.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. 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.
Squad17 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.
Transfer targets17 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 9 out at HamKam
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market17 Aug 2026
HamKam say no — this time
The offer from Sogndal for Eron Gojani 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.15, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Lyn come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and HamKam did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fredrikstad have kept their man, and HamKam go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Loris Mettler and HamKam agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at HamKam
Julian Gonstad 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Morten Bohinen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aron Berge has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Magnus Berge 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at HamKam
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aksel Potur was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Åsane come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and HamKam did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. HamKam 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fredrik Sjølstad and HamKam agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to Bodo/Glimt 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at HamKam
Julian Gonstad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and HamKam go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcus Sandberg
“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.