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Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Stabaek
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Stabaek are no longer polite ones.
Market12 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Alagie Sanyang
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alagie Sanyang will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stabaek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” William Wendt and Stabaek agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Stabaek
Marius Lundemo 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Valerenga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Stabaek
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jørgen Skjelvik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marcus Hauge after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Stabaek needed to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jon Øya
“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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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Stabaek
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Stabaek are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stabaek is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Aleksa Matić pops up at the right end — 7.96
7.96, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Magnus Lankhof Dahlby and Stabaek agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Stabaek
Eirik Holmen 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Stabaek
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marius Lundemo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match3 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Bodo/Glimt, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolai Næss
“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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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Chastening afternoon for Stabaek
A 0‑3 beating by Lillestrom was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Stabaek
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Stabaek are no longer polite ones.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stabaek is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Sep 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
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 Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 new faces, and Stabaek are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marcus Hauge after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Stabaek
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sebastian Olderheim did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Stabaek
Andreas Gülstorff and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jørgen Skjelvik 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Molde leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sebastian Olderheim, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Stabaek would like this to lead.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Marius Lundemo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Stabaek needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Stabaek did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Stabaek
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Andreas Hoven
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andreas Hoven will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stabaek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Lundemo 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Stabaek cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Stabaek
Andreas Gülstorff 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Rosenborg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Aleksa Matić 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jørgen Skjelvik will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stabaek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Stabaek
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Stabaek are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marius Lundemo 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Andreas Gülstorff 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Aalesund left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Eirik Holmen, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
At 19 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Stabaek will try not to make too much of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Stabaek, another week without a signature from Magnus Lankhof Dahlby.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
Alagie Sanyang has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stabaek they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Stabaek
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stabaek are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 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 Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Nicolai Næss 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jørgen Skjelvik 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Stabaek
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Marcus Hauge was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Stabaek dressing room was either.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Marius Ulla
Nobody at Stabaek is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Magnus Lankhof Dahlby will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stabaek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Eirik Holmen 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 Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Stabaek
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marius Lundemo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Copenhagen have kept their man, and Stabaek go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.92 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Stabaek had the best player on the pitch.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Magnus Lankhof Dahlby to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Viking, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Stabaek out
Out, 1‑2 to Haugesund, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stabaek is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Stabaek until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Randers keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Andreas Hoven has agreed terms with Viking for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Stabaek
Marius Lundemo 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.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Magnus Lankhof Dahlby provided it, and the 8.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sebastian Olderheim did not need any: 8.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Eirik Holmen gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Eirik Holmen has just signed for Stabaek, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jacob Hanstad commits to Stabaek for another 4 years.
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 Stabaek this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Sandefjord this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Stabaek asked and Rosenborg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Aug 2026
Haugesund made Stabaek work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.73, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.61 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.
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
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marius Lundemo and Stabaek agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Stabaek
Magnus Lankhof Dahlby 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Stabaek training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Lundemo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Stabaek asked and FC Midtjylland said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.