From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.57
A mark of 8.57 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A season average of 7.40 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Molde know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Whatever happens, Molde do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Albert Posiadała 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Kristian Eriksen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Molde.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
A performance of 8.78 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2027
Molde do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Molde came through the finding-out well against Spartak Subotica.
Match23 Oct 2027
Kristian Eriksen wins it after the whistle should have gone
92 minutes played. Kristian Eriksen found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Valerenga went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.84
A mark of 8.84 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.
Match25 Oct 2027
Molde refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 53 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad25 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 2027
Molde make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match24 Oct 2027
Whatever happens, Molde do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match23 Oct 2027
It finished 3‑2, and it was Kristian Eriksen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Molde.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
Market18 Oct 2027
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.
Match16 Oct 2027
No end in sight to Molde's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Molde has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad18 Oct 2027
18 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
40 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
A defender's afternoon for Marko Grujić
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Getting past Albert Posiadała has become the hardest job in the division
17 clean sheets and counting. Forwards used to back themselves here; now they shoot early, shoot wide, and look for somebody to blame.
Match9 Oct 2027
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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Posiadała 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.
Match9 Oct 2027
Nobody wins at Molde
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad11 Oct 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.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2027
Molde do the business in Europe
1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Molde came through the finding-out well against Olympique Lyonnais.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.95
A mark of 8.95 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
An average of 7.33 in a first team he is several years too young for. Molde have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Up for the corner, and Marko Grujić delivers — 7.88
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Marko Grujić scored, was marked 7.88, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Ortega commits to Molde for another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 terraces4 Oct 2027
At 21 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.
Match3 Oct 2027
The run at home goes on for Molde
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter is the division's best young player this month
At 20 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Molde will try very hard not to make too much of it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match25 Sep 2027
Derby day misery for Molde
Losing 0‑1 is one thing; losing to Rosenborg in a derby is a wound that takes months to close.
Match27 Sep 2027
Molde are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 47 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jacob Christensen commits to Molde for another 4 years.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“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 ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 4.95. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Market27 Sep 2027
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.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2027
Molde do the business in Europe
2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Molde came through the finding-out well against Suduva.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Michael Ortega, 36, rolls back the years — 9.08
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.08 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 8.30, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market20 Sep 2027
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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A defender's afternoon for Marko Grujić
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad20 Sep 2027
16 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 ratings20 Sep 2027
Marked 9.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Squad13 Sep 2027
Eirik Hestad: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Molde have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
15 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Albert Posiadała has given nobody the chance.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomás Bugallo and Molde agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
32 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 9.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad6 Sep 2027
He is 20, he is averaging 7.26, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Oskar Spiten-Nysæter and Molde agree another 5 years.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Three points for Molde, 1‑0 the final word against Viking in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Marked 8.48 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Steady
Match30 Aug 2027
Molde up to position 3
40 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marko Grujić, and the manager let it.
Match28 Aug 2027
0‑1 to Sarpsborg 08, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Nobody left the Molde dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market30 Aug 2027
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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.49 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Age has not caught Michael Ortega yet — 8.23
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market23 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market23 Aug 2027
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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Haugesund made Molde work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
28 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Posiadała 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
SJK are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Molde will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A last season at home is what Fidélis is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Marko Grujić's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
“I did not go to Bodo/Glimt to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
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Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
An average of 7.13 in a first team he is several years too young for. Molde have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Bielkiewicz commits to Molde for another 2 years.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Albert Posiadała 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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Marked 8.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market9 Aug 2027
Everyone has stopped pretending: Mjondalen will make the call about Fredrik Gulbrandsen this week. Molde have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market9 Aug 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Fredrik Gulbrandsen has his answer from Molde; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Match7 Aug 2027
It needed Halldor Stenevik to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Odd, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Defensive actions: 36, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match2 Aug 2027
Molde up to position 3
35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69
A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match31 Jul 2027
Molde make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Molde have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Diego Bielkiewicz commits to Molde for another 2 years.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Mjondalen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Fredrik Gulbrandsen. The answer from Molde has not changed — yet.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.69 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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.
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market26 Jul 2027
As if he never left: Gustav Nyheim returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Gustav Nyheim is a Molde player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A move Simen Haram would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Simen Haram is living that version at Molde, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match24 Jul 2027
Nobody wants to play Molde right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market26 Jul 2027
The fee is $210.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Aalesund drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 9.20, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Age has not caught Michael Ortega yet — 9.00
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.00 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market19 Jul 2027
The phone has started ringing about Eirik Haugan again, and this time the name on the line is Bodo/Glimt. Molde are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
Ninety minutes of Kristian Eriksen at his very best
Marked 9.41. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Molde.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Posiadała 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.
Match17 Jul 2027
Three points for Molde, 3‑1 the final word against Tromso in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad19 Jul 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 terraces19 Jul 2027
At 19 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.
Loan watch19 Jul 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Molde, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Jul 2027
There were 7 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 ratings12 Jul 2027
At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.25 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad12 Jul 2027
He is 19, he is averaging 7.00, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad12 Jul 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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Posiadała 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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.
Match3 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Molde sign 10 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
25 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 ratings28 Jun 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Kristian Eriksen 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
3 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match26 Jun 2027
Point won or two lost for Molde?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lillestrom? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 31. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match21 Jun 2027
Molde up to position 3
22 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Caleb Zady Sery was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.23. 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.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match19 Jun 2027
Aalesund made Molde work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oskar Spiten-Nysæter commits to Molde for another 5 years.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Fidélis out for 17 days
The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Fidélis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Match12 Jun 2027
The derby belongs to Molde
2‑1 against Rosenborg, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Molde support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 terraces14 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.
Match12 Jun 2027
No time for Rosenborg to settle
The goal that put Rosenborg ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Molde equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
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.
Squad14 Jun 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
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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Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 26, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter is the division's best young player this month
At 19 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Molde will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Halldor Stenevik is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“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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Squad31 May 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
A performance of 9.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match29 May 2027
Three points for Molde, 1‑0 the final word against Stromsgodset in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 May 2027
“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 ratings31 May 2027
Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Squad24 May 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Molde have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 May 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.
Match22 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 May 2027
49 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Loan watch24 May 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Molde, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Paternina, and the manager let it.
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Player ratings17 May 2027
34 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings17 May 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 May 2027
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 8.27, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 May 2027
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.
Player ratings17 May 2027
27 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad17 May 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.
Match15 May 2027
Three points for Molde, 2‑0 the final word against Sarpsborg 08 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad17 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Eirik Hestad
“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.
Squad17 May 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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Match5 May 2027
Molde out of the cup
Mjondalen ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.81
A mark of 8.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The terraces10 May 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 25 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad10 May 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Match8 May 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Oskar Spiten-Nysæter’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Molde.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Caleb Zady Sery was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.02. 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.
Squad10 May 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.
Boardroom10 May 2027
Nobody left the Molde dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad10 May 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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Steady
Match1 May 2027
19 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 19 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Match1 May 2027
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Molde scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings3 May 2027
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter did not need any: 8.57, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings3 May 2027
27 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 May 2027
Nobody wins at Molde
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 terraces3 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.
Match1 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Oskar Spiten-Nysæter. 1‑0 against Mjondalen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Match24 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 18. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Molde have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
25 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
The run at home goes on for Molde
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match24 Apr 2027
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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A defender's afternoon for Marko Grujić
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Molde, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
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Steady
Match17 Apr 2027
17 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 17 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
31 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Defensive actions: 30. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad19 Apr 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.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
“I did not go to SJK to sit and watch. I want to come back to Molde and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.64 on the card, and the Molde support went home talking about one name.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fredrik Gulbrandsen, and the manager let it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Pedersen and Molde agree another 3 years.
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Steady
Match10 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
26 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Caleb Zady Sery and Molde agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Apr 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.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Molde
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match10 Apr 2027
Molde make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match10 Apr 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Molde. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“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.
Market12 Apr 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aron Singh 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.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Market29 Mar 2027
Molde say no — this time
The offer from Mjondalen for Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.
Squad29 Mar 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
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.
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Market22 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad22 Mar 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.
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Upbeat
Match15 Mar 2027
Molde up to position 1
30 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad15 Mar 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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Upbeat
Market8 Mar 2027
Molde say no — this time
The offer from Tromso for Oskar Spiten-Nysæter 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marko Grujić commits to Molde for another 3 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eirik Haugan, and the manager let it.
Market8 Mar 2027
The name of Marko Grujić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Molde say nothing, which says plenty.
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Market1 Mar 2027
“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.
Market1 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Molde will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Fidélis wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Molde know it.
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Upbeat
Market22 Feb 2027
“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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Molde say no — this time
The offer from Mjondalen for Jacob Christensen 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Michael Ortega 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.
Squad22 Feb 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.
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Upbeat
Match15 Feb 2027
Molde refuse to drop out of the race
Position 1, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market15 Feb 2027
The fee is $1.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Tromso drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A move Mathias Tønnessen would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mathias Tønnessen is living that version at Molde, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad15 Feb 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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The name of Oskar Spiten-Nysæter has come up in conversations Molde were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Grujić 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
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristian Eriksen
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Molde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Molde have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Fredrik Gulbrandsen has his answer from Molde; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristian Eriksen
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Molde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Molde can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Molde have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad1 Feb 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market1 Feb 2027
Martin Linnes is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Molde has been clear about where Martin Linnes stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Upbeat
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristian Eriksen
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Molde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samukele Kabini 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
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristian Eriksen
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Molde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match18 Jan 2027
Molde up to position 1
30 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kristian Eriksen
48 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Molde lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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
Marko Grujić 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Molde may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Molde have had the benefit of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 106% of everything Molde earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match21 Dec 2026
Molde are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 30 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Molde may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Molde have won it
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad7 Dec 2026
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Molde have had the benefit of it.
Market7 Dec 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.
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The one award nobody else on the pitch can win goes to Albert Posiadała, on 10 clean sheets across the season. Keepers wait a career for a season like it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Silverware for Molde
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
In brief
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Boardroom
133% of the income goes out in wages at Molde
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Squad
Michael Ortega has become a man the manager trusts
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Squad
Eirik Hestad knocks on the manager’s door
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Market
The Birk Risa story refuses to die
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match23 Nov 2026
Molde are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 30 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Grujić 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
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.
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market9 Nov 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.
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
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Grujić 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match31 Oct 2026
15 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match31 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Molde. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Molde, 1‑0 the final word against Tromso in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
133% of the income goes out in wages at Molde
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match26 Oct 2026
Molde are in among the leaders
Position 1 and 27 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match24 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody wins at Molde
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad26 Oct 2026
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eirik Hestad, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
7.70, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Molde had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match17 Oct 2026
13 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Molde may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
26 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Marko Grujić
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Boardroom19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Isak Helstad Amundsen 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Molde do not lose
12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Caleb Zady Sery was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.22. 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Lillestrom made Molde work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Kotaro Uchino at his very best
Marked 8.30. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Molde.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Molde
10 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
11 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 11 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Market5 Oct 2026
Fidélis puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Molde, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 138% of everything Molde earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Fidélis wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Molde know it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match26 Sep 2026
A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 2‑1, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.
Match28 Sep 2026
Molde up to position 1
19 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Molde do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Molde have their man.
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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Grujić 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 terraces28 Sep 2026
Molde supporters have found a favourite in Kotaro Uchino
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Kotaro Uchino has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kristian Eriksen 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 38, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Oskar Spiten-Nysæter, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.49
A mark of 8.49 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Molde
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.59 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marko Grujić 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
At 19 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Stabaek made Molde work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
8 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Squad14 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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Emil Breivik 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Molde
12 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Caleb Zady Sery to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Stromsgodset, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristian Eriksen and Molde agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 unbeaten for Molde
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Molde did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Halldor Stenevik at his very best
Marked 9.51. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Molde.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 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.
Squad7 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Viking made Molde work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 Aug 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Kristian Eriksen has agreed terms with Bodo/Glimt for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Molde
Marko Grujić 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Molde do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 9.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marko Grujić is still paying for one afternoon at Molde
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Sarpsborg 08 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Molde say no — this time
The offer from Lillestrom for Albert Posiadała 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
Age has not caught Michael Ortega yet — 8.39
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.39 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 27 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 26 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marko Grujić 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Michael Ortega. 1‑0 against Haugesund, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Molde out
Out, 0‑0 to Sandefjord, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Molde win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Mjondalen will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Marko Grujić would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Marko Grujić is living that version at Molde, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Valerenga have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Kristian Eriksen. The answer from Molde has not changed — yet.
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Molde training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marko Grujić 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Mjondalen made Molde work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Caleb Zady Sery was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.98. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marko Grujić, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Rapid Wien paid $3.1M and Molde took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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 Molde this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Birk Risa and Molde agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Aalesund paid $180.0K and Molde took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
The Eirik Haugan conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: IK Start will make the call about Eirik Haugan this week. Molde have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.57 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market3 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Rapid Wien have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jalal Abdullai. The answer from Molde has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A first appearance Magnus Fjørtoft Løvik will want to forget — 5.62
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.62, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
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.” Martin Linnes and Molde agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 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.