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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 13. 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 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Emil Ceïde
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Óscar Valentín 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match10 Oct 2026
Rosenborg 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Markus Naglestad and Rosenborg agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match10 Oct 2026
A goal on 95 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
7.93, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Rosenborg had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rosenborg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match5 Oct 2026
21 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santeri Väänänen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ole Selnæs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Rosenborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óscar Valentín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Oct 2026
Lillestrom made Rosenborg work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Looking ahead5 Oct 2026
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rosenborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 11. 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Emil Ceïde beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market28 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mikkel Ceïde
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikkel Ceïde will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Rosenborg
Ole Selnæs and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Óscar Valentín 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iver Fossum, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 new faces, and Rosenborg are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rosenborg will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Leopold Wahlstedt: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match16 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 win over Sarpsborg 08, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match19 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rosenborg
The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market21 Sep 2026
Mark Mampassi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rosenborg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Mark Mampassi has agreed terms with Valerenga for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ole Selnæs 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
Emil Ceïde beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Victor Lind 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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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ole Selnæs 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 Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Rosenborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Óscar Valentín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One of those days for Emil Ceïde
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.49, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Dino Islamović at his very best
Marked 8.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rosenborg.
Match12 Sep 2026
Level with 93 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Rosenborg had all but put away. Stabaek will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jesper Reitan-Sunde did not need any: 8.94, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Santeri Väänänen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Santeri Väänänen has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Rosenborg did not have in the autumn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ole Selnæs and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Óscar Valentín 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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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
Only the photograph left for Mikkel Ceïde
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mikkel Ceïde will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rosenborg the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Rosenborg
Ole Selnæs and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match29 Aug 2026
Whatever happens, Rosenborg 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Kristian Eriksen has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Rosenborg have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Rosenborg, 1‑0 the final word against Viking in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Rosenborg
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mathias Kjølø was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Kjølø, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.96 on the card, and the Rosenborg support went home talking about one name.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Amin Chiakha obliged against Tromso. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Rosenborg.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market24 Aug 2026
Rosenborg spend $6.6M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $6.6M has been paid because Óscar Valentín is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Amin Chiakha, 20, steals the show — 7.64
Marked 7.64 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ole Selnæs 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tomáš Nemčík 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wigan Athletic have kept their man, and Rosenborg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 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.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Rosenborg march on in the cup
Mjondalen are out and Rosenborg go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Rayo Vallecano; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Match15 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Dino Islamović takes the afternoon — 8.95
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dino Islamović provided it, and the 8.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Mads Bomholt, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60
A mark of 7.60 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Rosenborg say no — this time
The offer from Valerenga for Mikkel Ceïde was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Santeri Väänänen delivers — 7.87
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Santeri Väänänen scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market17 Aug 2026
Lillestrom pay $2.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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Upbeat
Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Mjondalen, and it could have been more.
Market10 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.93 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Rosenborg have gone to Rayo Vallecano with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Lillestrom have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Aslak Fonn Witry. The answer from Rosenborg has not changed — yet.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Elias Hovdahl Sandrød has agreed terms with Lillestrom for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Emil Ceïde and Rosenborg agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$320.0K on the table at Viking. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Victor Lind and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Emil Ceïde runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Rosenborg say no — this time
The offer from IF Elfsborg for Amin Chiakha 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Tomáš Nemčík wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Rosenborg hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ole Selnæs commits to Rosenborg for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rosenborg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
No deal for Zack Steffen at that price
Rosenborg offered $400.0K; Colorado Rapids said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ole Selnæs 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Odd left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Noah Sahsah has come up in conversations Rosenborg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.