15 May 2027
Saturday
Process
41 Edition

The Tromso Herald

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Julian Faye Lund decides it from twelve yards

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.

Match

Tromso march on in the cup

Lillestrom are out and Tromso go through, 1‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Player ratings

Both of them Vegard Erlien's — 9.14

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Lars Olden Larsen was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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.

Match

Tromso find a way past IK Start

IK Start made Tromso work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

One of their own: Mathias Tønnessen

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Lars Olden Larsen

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Player ratings

Mathias Tønnessen in the eights

A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words at Tromso training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Faye Lund 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.

In brief

Back issues
40 Edition

The Tromso Herald

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sander Innvær is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tromso is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Lars Olden Larsen was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. 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.

Market

Flamarion wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Daniel Braut signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Braut and Tromso agree another 5 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jakob Haugaard

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakob Haugaard, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Vegard Erlien

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Tromso refuse to lose to Aalesund

A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

Squad

Words at Tromso training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julian Faye Lund 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.

Match

Vegard Erlien rescues a point for Tromso

It needed Vegard Erlien to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Aalesund, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

39 Edition

The Tromso Herald

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The terraces

One of their own: Daniel Braut

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Tromso find a way past Valerenga

Valerenga made Tromso work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Belajdi Pusi reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vegard Erlien

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Loan watch

Alexander Warneryd has seen enough of Molde

“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 Tromso, and 2 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Daniel Braut

A mark of 7.72, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

A satisfied Sander Svensson

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Sander Svensson could afford to be generous.

The dugout

Vegard Erlien gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vegard Erlien is on it.

The dugout

Jesper Grundt 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.

In brief

38 Edition

The Tromso Herald

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A bad afternoon for Tromso against Bodo/Glimt

1‑2 to Bodo/Glimt, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

One of those days for Vegard Erlien

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Sander Svensson left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Morgan Arnstad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Tromso buy the years ahead of Julius Emefile

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

When it matters, Lars Olden Larsen plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ole Kristian Lauvli

“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.

Squad

Julius Emefile is a square peg at Tromso

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout

Isak Vådebu dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

37 Edition

The Tromso Herald

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

David Edvardsson was unplayable

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Casper Øyvann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Vegard Erlien

Marked 8.22 — 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.

Loan watch

Vince Osuji has seen enough of Molde

“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 Tromso, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Isak Vådebu

“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.

Match

Vegard Erlien rescues a point for Tromso

It needed Vegard Erlien to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lillestrom, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Sander Svensson on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sander Svensson after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Tromso

Bodo/Glimt top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout

Martin Linnes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Martin Linnes is on it.

In brief

36 Edition

The Tromso Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Sander Innvær

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sander Innvær will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tromso the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 4 signed and 3 gone

That is the business done at Tromso 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 targets

Door shut on Emil Rohd

Tromso asked and Haugesund said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Abderrahmane Sarr signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abderrahmane Sarr commits to Tromso for another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Casper Øyvann'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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Julian Faye Lund

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julian Faye Lund, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead

Vetle Skjærvik faces his old club

Lillestrom next, and one man in the Tromso dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

35 Edition

The Tromso Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Loan watch

Alexander Warneryd has seen enough of Molde

“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 Tromso, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

Vegard Erlien gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vegard Erlien is on it.

The dugout

Viktor Ekblom knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tromso, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

34 Edition

The Tromso Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sander Innvær has said yes to Viking

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Tromso have lost him in all but the paperwork.

The dugout

Viktor Ekblom 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.

Squad

Mathias Tønnessen signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mathias Tønnessen commits to Tromso for another 4 years.

The dugout

Lars Olden Larsen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso 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.

Market

The Viktor Ekblom talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Adrian Evensen-Jensen knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adrian Evensen-Jensen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

33 Edition

The Tromso Herald

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Petar Zajc turns down Tromso

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: NK Domzale keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Michael Opoku

Tromso asked and Sarpsborg 08 said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Viking join the queue for Sander Innvær

Add another name to the list: Viking have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sander Innvær. The answer from Tromso has not changed — yet.

Loan watch

Vince Osuji wants to come home

“I did not go to Molde to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tromso and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

The dugout

Sander Innvær 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 dugout

Martin Linnes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Martin Linnes is on it.

In brief

32 Edition

The Tromso Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jesper Grundt hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tromso can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Tromso say no — this time

The offer from Valerenga for Jesper Grundt 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.

Transfer targets

Petar Zajc due for a Tromso medical

Everything agreed with NK Domzale, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Jakob Haugaard stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakob Haugaard and Tromso agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Flamarion wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Market

One of our own: Morten Strandberg joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Morten Strandberg is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Casper Øyvann is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

No hiding place for Julian Faye Lund

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julian Faye Lund, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso 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.

In brief

31 Edition

The Tromso Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Julian Faye Lund hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tromso can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Troy Nyhammer moves on

Bodo/Glimt pay $1.9M, 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tromso

Abderrahmane Sarr and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Isak Vådebu 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 dugout

Vegard Erlien gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vegard Erlien is on it.

Squad

Tromso have started building around Belajdi Pusi

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Market

The Vegard Erlien talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Viktor Ekblom has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Viktor Ekblom has written the date down.

Market

Tromso put Jesper Grundt up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Jesper Grundt may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

30 Edition

The Tromso Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Rosenborg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Tromso did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Noah Sahsah

Tromso 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tromso

Casper Øyvann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vetle Skjærvik

“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.

Market

Jesper Grundt told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jesper Grundt has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tromso.

Squad

The formation has left Belajdi Pusi behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tromso will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout

Lars Olden Larsen gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lars Olden Larsen is on it.

Market

The Viktor Ekblom talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Belajdi Pusi remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Tromso would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

29 Edition

The Tromso Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bodo/Glimt come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Tromso did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Tromso get their man

The chase for Belajdi Pusi ended with $3.4M changing hands and Fakel out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Tromso pay Pakhtakor $2.2M for a proper upgrade

Pakhtakor did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $2.2M for Flamarion, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Petar Zajc

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Domzale have kept their man, and Tromso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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 Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Tromso spend $3.4M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $3.4M for Belajdi Pusi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

The dugout

Viktor Ekblom 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.

Market

One of our own: Morten Singh joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Morten Singh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Flamarion is a square peg at Tromso

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

28 Edition

The Tromso Herald

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$3.4M settles it between the clubs for Belajdi Pusi

Fakel have accepted the money. What Tromso do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Indrit Tuci

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olimpija Ljubljana have kept their man, and Tromso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Tromso make their move for Flamarion

$2.2M on the table at Pakhtakor. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Molde join the queue for Alexander Warneryd

Add another name to the list: Molde have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexander Warneryd. The answer from Tromso has not changed — yet.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Casper Øyvann'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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Julian Faye Lund

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Julian Faye Lund, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso 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.

Market

Casper Øyvann linked with a move away

The name of Casper Øyvann keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tromso say nothing, which says plenty.

Boardroom

The window opens at Tromso

A month in which every rumour is possible and most of them are nonsense. The manager has a list, the board has a number, and neither is telling the other the whole of it.

In brief

27 Edition

The Tromso Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Julian Faye Lund asks to leave Tromso

“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.

The dugout

Vegard Erlien has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso 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.

Market

The Vegard Erlien talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Daniel Thorstensen walks taller at Tromso

His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.

Market

Tromso put Morgan Arnstad up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Morgan Arnstad may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Squad

Isak Vådebu is put on a programme of his own

Individual work, away from the group, aimed at one specific thing the coaches think is holding him back. It rarely makes the news and it is how most improvement actually happens.

In brief

26 Edition

The Tromso Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Viktor Ekblom says Tromso went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Daniel Thorstensen 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 dugout

When it matters, Lars Olden Larsen plays

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.

Market

The David Edvardsson question follows Tromso around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with David Edvardsson’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Adrian Evensen-Jensen asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

The manager comes out for Vegard Erlien

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Vegard Erlien has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

25 Edition

The Tromso Herald

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Casper Øyvann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Daniel Thorstensen arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Daniel Thorstensen has, at Tromso, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Viktor Ekblom

“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.

Market

Tromso buy the years ahead of Daniel Thorstensen

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

When it matters, Martin Linnes plays

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.

Squad

The formation has left Daniel Thorstensen behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tromso will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

Viktor Ekblom linked with a move away

The name of Viktor Ekblom keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tromso say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Somebody is after Vegard Erlien’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Vegard Erlien suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Tromso have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

The dugout

Adrian Evensen-Jensen knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tromso, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

24 Edition

The Tromso Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Mads Mikkelsen at Tromso

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Mads Mikkelsen is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Birger Meling steps up from the Tromso academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Birger Meling 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.

Squad

Isak Vådebu signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Isak Vådebu commits to Tromso for another 4 years.

The dugout

Casper Øyvann is still paying for one afternoon at Tromso

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Abderrahmane Sarr and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Julian Faye Lund 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.

In brief

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The Tromso Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Jesper Grundt says Tromso went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Casper Øyvann 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 dugout

Vetle Skjærvik 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 dugout

Vegard Erlien has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso 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.

Market

The Vegard Erlien talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

Isak Vådebu asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

22 Edition

The Tromso Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Vetle Skjærvik says Tromso went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Adrian Evensen-Jensen

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Lars Olden Larsen gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lars Olden Larsen is on it.

The terraces

Supporters make their feelings known about Casper Øyvann

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Tromso would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

Market

Daniel Braut linked with a move away

The name of Daniel Braut keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tromso say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

21 Edition

The Tromso Herald

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Alexander Warneryd 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 dugout

Martin Linnes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Martin Linnes is on it.

Squad

Alexander Warneryd: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Tromso will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market

The David Edvardsson story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until David Edvardsson signs something — a contract at Tromso or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Leon Hien knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Leon Hien trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager makes Julian Faye Lund a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tromso. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

20 Edition

The Tromso Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Tromso beaten on the continent

1‑3 against Estoril Praia, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.

Squad

8 saves: Jakob Haugaard was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

The dugout

No hiding place for Viktor Ekblom

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Ekblom, and the manager let it.

Market

One of our own: Mathias Normann joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathias Normann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Player ratings

Vegard Erlien beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Casper Øyvann is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Sander Svensson faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sander Svensson after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

When it matters, Ruben Yttergård Jenssen plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The terraces

The glare is on Casper Øyvann

Every touch weighed, every quote parsed, every mistake replayed. Some players grow into that; some are quietly finished by it; nobody knows which until afterwards.

In brief

19 Edition

The Tromso Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Adrian Evensen-Jensen says Tromso went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Martin Linnes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Linnes and Tromso agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for David Edvardsson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to David Edvardsson, and the manager let it.

The dugout

When it matters, Vegard Erlien plays

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.

Market

The Vegard Erlien talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Tromso have started building around Mathias Tønnessen

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

In brief

18 Edition

The Tromso Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Tromso lift the trophy

The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.

Match

Tromso announce themselves in Europe

4‑1 against Slavia Mozyr, on a night that will be replayed at this club for a generation. Continental reputations are made in single evenings and this was the evening.

Squad

18 days out for Sebastian Mihai Asan after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tromso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Tromso through in the cup

A 2‑1 win over Lillestrom, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Both of them Vegard Erlien's — 9.07

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.07, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lars Olden Larsen

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Daniel Braut scores twice — 8.73

Two goals and a mark of 8.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

David Edvardsson says Tromso went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Martin Linnes yet — 8.21

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.21 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

In brief

  • The terraces One of their own: Daniel Braut
  • The dugout The team sheet said everything about Viktor Ekblom
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
17 Edition

The Tromso Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastian Mihai Asan out for 26 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tromso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Abderrahmane Sarr 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 Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Julian Faye Lund

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

When it matters, Isak Vådebu plays

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.

Market

The David Edvardsson story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until David Edvardsson signs something — a contract at Tromso or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Vince Osuji knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vince Osuji trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

16 Edition

The Tromso Herald

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastian Mihai Asan out for 33 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tromso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Isak Vådebu keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tromso may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Casper Øyvann 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 Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Leon Hien

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Tromso

Something was said to Lars Olden Larsen and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Lars Olden Larsen gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lars Olden Larsen is on it.

Market

The Alexander Warneryd talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tromso know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

The training reports on Troy Nyhammer are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

Market

Bodo/Glimt send scouts to watch Daniel Braut

Two seats in the directors' box were spoken for, and the name in the notebook was Daniel Braut. Nothing has been offered yet.

In brief

15 Edition

The Tromso Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastian Mihai Asan out for 41 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tromso will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

A European night to forget for Tromso

0‑3. Malmo FF play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.

Match

4 matches without a win for Tromso

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tromso are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tromso

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Tromso

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

The dugout

Jakob Haugaard 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.

Market

One of our own: Alexander Daehli joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexander Daehli is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Tromso 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Sander Svensson left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

14 Edition

The Tromso Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

49 days out for Sebastian Mihai Asan after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tromso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

The goals have deserted Tromso

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Tromso can tell you which week it ends in.

The dugout

No hiding place for Viktor Ekblom

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viktor Ekblom, and the manager let it.

Match

Nobody wins at Tromso

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Boardroom

$4.1M on the table at Tromso

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Squad

Leon Hien is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Leon Hien has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

When it matters, Vegard Erlien plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sander Svensson chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Match

Tromso draw a blank against Molde

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Molde defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

13 Edition

The Tromso Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

57 days out for Sebastian Mihai Asan after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tromso will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

Tromso beaten on the continent

0‑1 against Malmo FF, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.

Match

Tromso come up short against Rosenborg

Rosenborg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No place for Viktor Ekblom on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Tromso pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

The dugout

Sander Svensson faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sander Svensson after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

Jakob Haugaard has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tromso will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Adrian Evensen-Jensen 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Troy Nyhammer

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Casper Øyvann has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Tromso lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief

12 Edition

The Tromso Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tromso strike at the death to beat Stabaek

There were 85 minutes on the clock and Stabaek had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Tromso did not stop to explain themselves.

Match

Tromso are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

Tromso end the wait against Stabaek

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Player ratings

Lars Olden Larsen beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Troy Nyhammer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Troy Nyhammer and Tromso agree another 5 years.

Match

Tromso see off Stabaek

Three points for Tromso, 1‑0 the final word against Stabaek in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Vegard Erlien was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.27. 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Ruben Yttergård Jenssen

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Tromso told Ruben Yttergård Jenssen something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Tromso

13 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.

In brief

11 Edition

The Tromso Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Stromsgodset end the Tromso run at 15

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 15 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Match

The wait goes on for Tromso

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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Tromso against Stromsgodset

1‑2 to Stromsgodset, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Jesper Grundt was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

The dugout

Sander Svensson: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexander Warneryd

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Martin Linnes gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Martin Linnes is on it.

The dugout

David Edvardsson asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

The Viktor Ekblom question follows Tromso around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Viktor Ekblom’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

10 Edition

The Tromso Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tromso do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Tromso came through the finding-out well against Estoril Praia.

Match

15 unbeaten for Tromso

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 15 matches without defeat is a foundation Tromso did not have in the autumn.

Match

The wait goes on for Tromso

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.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

Leon Hien 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Abderrahmane Sarr 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 dugout

The team sheet said everything about Martin Linnes

Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Martin Linnes.

Squad

Lars Olden Larsen makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout

Vegard Erlien gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Vegard Erlien is on it.

In brief

9 Edition

The Tromso Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

13 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 ratings

Troy Nyhammer, 20, steals the show — 8.02

Marked 8.02 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.

Match

No end in sight to Tromso's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Tromso has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Casper Øyvann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Troy Nyhammer

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Troy Nyhammer 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.

Match

Tromso caught on 94 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Sarpsborg 08 scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

Tromso share the spoils with Sarpsborg 08

A 2‑2 draw with Sarpsborg 08 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Julian Faye Lund 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 dugout

When it matters, Jakob Haugaard plays

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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Tromso Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Tromso do the business in Europe

0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Tromso came through the finding-out well against Slavia Mozyr.

Squad

Jakob Haugaard decides it from twelve yards

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.

Match

Tromso through in the cup

A 1‑1 win over Rosenborg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A move Morgan Arnstad 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. Morgan Arnstad is living that version at Tromso, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mathias Tønnessen

At 22 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.

Match

Rosenborg snatch it back from Tromso

A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

In brief

7 Edition

The Tromso Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Mads Mikkelsen, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94

A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Martin Linnes yet — 7.95

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.95 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

9 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 ratings

Sander Innvær was unplayable

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.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Lars Olden Larsen — 7.60

Marked 7.60. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mads Mikkelsen

At 18 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.

Match

Tromso see off Mjondalen

Three points for Tromso, 2‑0 the final word against Mjondalen in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Tromso promote Stian Lien from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stian Lien has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Tromso promote Thomas Hauge from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Hauge has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

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7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Viktor Ekblom scores twice — 8.75

Two goals and a mark of 8.75 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sander Innvær

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Whatever happens, Tromso do not lose

8 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.

Squad

Ludvig Gjertsen out for 27 days

The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Ludvig Gjertsen, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Match

Late, late show earns Tromso a point

Minute 86, against Odd, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Leon Hien

“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.

Match

Honours even between Tromso and Odd

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

Alexander Warneryd makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

A step back for Mathias Tønnessen at Tromso

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

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The Tromso Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Tromso throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Sandefjord the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Tromso will enjoy reviewing.

Player ratings

Both of them Daniel Braut's — 8.55

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.55, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Troy Nyhammer 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tromso

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.

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Zakaria Mugeese

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Odd have kept their man, and Tromso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jakob Haugaard

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakob Haugaard, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Vegard Erlien

Marked 8.17 — 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.

Match

Tromso share the spoils with Sandefjord

A 2‑2 draw with Sandefjord leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Sander Svensson on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sander Svensson after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

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The Tromso Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Vegard Erlien sends Tromso through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Vegard Erlien obliged against Stromsgodset. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Tromso.

Player ratings

Troy Nyhammer beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Sander Innvær, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.20

A mark of 8.20 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Tromso

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.

Transfer targets

Stromsgodset tell Tromso: Marcus Mehnert is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Player ratings

One of those days for Vegard Erlien

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.96, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The terraces

Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Jesper Grundt

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Jesper Grundt 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.

Squad

13 new faces, and Tromso 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.

Squad

Mathias Linnes signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mathias Linnes and Tromso agree another 3 years.

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17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jakob Haugaard decides it from twelve yards

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.

Match

Tromso through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Viking, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

No mercy from Tromso

Aalesund will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tromso were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vegard Erlien

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Both of them Ruben Yttergård Jenssen's — 7.97

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.97, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Vintage Martin Linnes — 7.90

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.90, and nobody on the pitch better.

Boardroom

Tromso close the window on a squad of their own making

14 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Tromso spend $220.0K to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $220.0K has been paid because Julian Faye Lund is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kristian Eriksen

Tromso asked and Molde said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

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The Tromso Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Martin Ove Roseth

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Viking have kept their man, and Tromso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Tromso say no — this time

The offer from Falkenberg for Ole Kristian Lauvli 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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Julian Faye Lund

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Tromso have done the hard part with Bodo/Glimt, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Tromso

Casper Øyvann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Daniel Braut signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Braut commits to Tromso for another 5 years.

The terraces

Tromso supporters have found a favourite in Sander Innvær

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Sander Innvær 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.

Market

One of our own: Jens Svensson joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jens Svensson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Erling Berge steps up from the Tromso academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Erling Berge has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Jonas Haaland joins the Tromso first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonas Haaland is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

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The Tromso Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Jakob Haugaard keeps Tromso in it on his own

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.

Market

Tromso say no — this time

The offer from Aalesund for David Edvardsson 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.

Transfer targets

Tromso rebuffed over Iker Muñoz

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Osasuna have kept their man, and Tromso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ruben Yttergård Jenssen and Tromso agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Tromso

Ruben Yttergård Jenssen 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.

Transfer targets

Tromso bid $150.0K for Julian Faye Lund

The offer went to Bodo/Glimt this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Match

Vegard Erlien the difference as Tromso beat Bodo/Glimt

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vegard Erlien. 2‑1 against Bodo/Glimt, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Ole Kristian Lauvli attracts admirers

The name of Ole Kristian Lauvli has come up in conversations Tromso were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The terraces

One of their own: Alexander Warneryd

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

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