From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Molde
Morten Bjørlo 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Birk Risa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Birk Risa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Emil Breivik has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Caleb Zady Sery has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Emil Breivik. Molde will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market4 Jan 2027
The Emil Breivik story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Emil Breivik signs something — a contract at Molde or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
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 Fredrik Kristensen Dahl has written the date down.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Molde
Albert Posiadała and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Birk Risa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Samukele Kabini
“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 Dec 2026
Eirik Hestad has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Albert Posiadała signs something — a contract at Molde or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Molde will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Petter Berg With damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Halldor Stenevik 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 dugout21 Dec 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 dugout21 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 Albert Posiadała is on it.
Market21 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Molde know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Crisis
Squad14 Dec 2026
Petter Berg With damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Molde have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match12 Dec 2026
10 matches without a win for Molde
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Molde are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Dec 2026
A European lesson for Molde
0‑1 against Heerenveen. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mats Møller Dæhli 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sivert Sira Hansen and Molde agree another 4 years.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Kasper Pedersen 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 dugout14 Dec 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 Mathias Bjorkan to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Molde lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A season's verdict on Oskar Spiten-Nysæter: the best of his age
Molde have a 19-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Breivik and Molde agree another 4 years.
Market7 Dec 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Molde will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Mats Møller Dæhli 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 dugout7 Dec 2026
Caleb Zady Sery has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde 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.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Emil Breivik story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Emil Breivik signs something — a contract at Molde or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
The stands have heard the Albert Posiadała talk too
What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Molde would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.
The dugout7 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 Molde, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
2‑2 against Dila, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Morten Bjørlo was at the centre of the description.
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Molde's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molde has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Eirik Haugan 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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Birk Risa 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.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Emil Breivik at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Molde.
Match28 Nov 2026
Molde refuse to lose to Dila
A point taken on 96 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Eirik Hestad gets picked when it counts
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 Eirik Hestad is on it.
The dugout30 Nov 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.” Mathias Bjorkan chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Market23 Nov 2026
Vebjørn Hoff has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Molde they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad23 Nov 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Molde
Albert Posiadała 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Trent Kone-Doherty, and the manager let it.
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 Albert Posiadała is on it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Halldor Stenevik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
Eirik Haugan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Molde they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Molde
Mats Møller Dæhli 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
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birk Risa 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
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
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Molde, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market16 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Caleb Zady Sery signs something — a contract at Molde or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Molde lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Molde's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molde has to find a result from somewhere.
Match7 Nov 2026
Molde beaten on the continent
0‑2 against Sparta Prague, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Match7 Nov 2026
Molde cannot find the net
8 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mats Møller Dæhli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Mathias Bjorkan left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Morten Bjørlo will call it something else in private.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
15 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Molde lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match31 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Molde
7 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Molde
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Molde can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mats Møller Dæhli 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.
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
A mark of 7.61, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Molde
Something was said to Morten Bjørlo and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout2 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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Molde lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match24 Oct 2026
A European lesson for Molde
0‑1 against Sparta Prague. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Molde
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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Molde
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Molde can tell you which week it ends in.
Market26 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Molde is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birk Risa 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Molde
Sivert Sira Hansen 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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Crisis
Market19 Oct 2026
Eirik Haugan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Molde they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Molde
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Molde are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Molde
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Birk Risa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Molde
Villads Nielsen 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 dugout19 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 Mathias Bjorkan to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Emil Breivik has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
Eirik Hestad 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 Molde, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Molde
Eirik Haugan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Molde
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Molde can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.23 on the card, and the Molde support went home talking about one name.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Molde take on the side everybody is chasing
Bodo/Glimt arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
The dugout12 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 Fredrik Kristensen Dahl is on it.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
A European lesson for Molde
0‑1 against Heerenveen. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Player ratings5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Molde
Albert Posiadała and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Birk Risa 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 dugout5 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 Mathias Bjorkan to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Jalal Abdullai has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Molde 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 19 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
Match3 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Aalesund defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead5 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lillestrom in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Match26 Sep 2026
Bragging rights belong to Molde for another year after a 2‑1 win over Rosenborg in front of a full house.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them, with his name on it, and it is a year of bragging rights for Molde and a story that will outlast his contract.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Molde is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Molde
Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mats Møller Dæhli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 new faces, and Molde 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Emil Breivik beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
Molde do the business in Europe
1‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Molde came through the finding-out well against Dila.
Match19 Sep 2026
Cruel end for Dila as Molde pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Molde scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Eirik Haugan
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eirik Haugan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Molde the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Jalal Abdullai at 21 — 7.90
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jalal Abdullai did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Molde
Mats Møller Dæhli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Albert Posiadała, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Caleb Zady Sery at his very best
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Molde.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
The fixture the calendar is arranged around. Form goes out of the window, the table is not consulted, and for ninety minutes Molde will be judged on one thing only.
In brief
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The dugout
Mats Møller Dæhli left out for the big one
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Emil Breivik has become a man the manager trusts
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
There were 8 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.35 for the rest of it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Birk Risa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Sep 2026
Molde rescue it on 87 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 87. Stromsgodset had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
The dugout14 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market14 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Mathias Bjorkan after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Stabaek in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
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 at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birk Risa 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 ratings7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Molde, another week without a signature from Albert Posiadała.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Molde
Sivert Sira Hansen 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
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Emil Breivik
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Emil Breivik has come out of that comparison in the side, and Molde have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mathias Bjorkan was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Molde dressing room was either.
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.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Vebjørn Hoff
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vebjørn Hoff will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Molde the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sarpsborg 08 left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Gosik, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Jalal Abdullai did the work nobody counts — 6.63
10 combined actions and 6.63. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Inquest at Molde
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
Tempers go at Molde
Villads Nielsen 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Molde
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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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Upbeat
Market24 Aug 2026
Eirik Haugan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Molde they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
Molde say no — this time
The offer from Hobro for Kristian Lonebu 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Emil Breivik pops up at the right end — 7.97
7.97, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Viktoria Plzen keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Molde
Eirik Haugan 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Emil Breivik’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Molde.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Birk Risa 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Molde bow out of the cup
Sandefjord go through and Molde go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.09 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Molde — 7.92
1 for Mats Møller Dæhli, marked 7.92, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 8 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Molde 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Olympiacos is saying, and nobody at Molde is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Eirik Haugan 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.
Squad17 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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Kristian Eriksen has left for Bodo/Glimt in a $420.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Tromso come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Molde did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 7.98 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market10 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Martin Linnes again, and this time the name on the line is Sandefjord. Molde are listening politely and promising nothing.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Vebjørn Hoff has agreed terms with Odd for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jalal Abdullai and Molde agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Molde
Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mats Møller Dæhli 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.
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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Molde get the job done against Odd
A 3‑1 win over Odd, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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
Only the photograph left for Vebjørn Hoff
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vebjørn Hoff will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Molde the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Mats Møller Dæhli 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Igor Gosik and Molde agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Molde
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Birk Risa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Molde, another week without a signature from Emil Breivik.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Molde are still strangers to each other
10 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Joel Roca is in the works
Molde have made the call to Olympiacos. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.