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Uneasy
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Tromso had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Zugdidi, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
$3.0M on the table at Zugdidi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market15 Feb 2027
Rosenborg pay $1.0M, 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
Market15 Feb 2027
Business is business: Sander Innvær goes
Sarpsborg 08 paid $750.0K and Tromso took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market15 Feb 2027
The phone has started ringing about Isak Vådebu again, and this time the name on the line is Rosenborg. Tromso are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
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 Mathias Tønnessen is on it.
The terraces15 Feb 2027
Supporters make their feelings known about Vegard Erlien
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.
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Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Jonas Bjorkan out for 20 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$3.1M on the table at Zugdidi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Archie Whitehall 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. Archie Whitehall has, at Tromso, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Everything agreed with FC Nordsjaelland, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tromso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexander Warneryd was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Tromso will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market8 Feb 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tromso can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Jonas Bjorkan out for 28 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Tromso
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexander Warneryd was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matteo Obleac commits to Tromso for another 3 years.
Market1 Feb 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Tromso signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
25 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Vetle Skjærvik 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.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
35 days out for Jonas Bjorkan 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jonas Bjorkan breaks a bone — 43 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
23 appearances away from home and 7 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Mathias Tønnessen 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Tromso
Tobias Børkeeiet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Jesper Grundt 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
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 dugout4 Jan 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Sander Innvær has written the date down.
The terraces4 Jan 2027
What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Tromso would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Ruben Yttergård Jenssen plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Market4 Jan 2027
Somebody from Bodo/Glimt has seen every one of David Edvardsson’s last few games. Nobody travels that far that often out of curiosity, and everybody at Tromso knows it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A programme of his own, away from the group, aimed at one thing the staff think is holding him back. Most improvement happens like this and none of it makes the paper.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Sander Innvær 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.
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Uneasy
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
The goals keep arriving from Ieltsin Camões’s exile
7 goals in 20 games at Slask — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Tromso updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Mathias Tønnessen 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.
Market21 Dec 2026
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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Isak Vådebu 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 Isak Vådebu has written the date down.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Heine Åsen Larsen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
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Uneasy
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tromso have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Sander Innvær
“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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
19 appearances at Slask and the goals keep coming. Tromso are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
Supporters make their feelings known about Vegard Erlien
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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The Leo Cornic story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Leo Cornic signs something — a contract at Tromso or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
Tromso are in Europe
Qualification is done, and next season the floodlights come on for something bigger. A stage for the players, oxygen for the accounts and a passport for everybody else.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Adrian Evensen-Jensen is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ole Kristian Lauvli, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Jesper Grundt 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 Jesper Grundt is on it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Vetle Skjærvik 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 Vetle Skjærvik trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
18 appearances at Slask and the goals keep coming. Tromso are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A programme of his own, away from the group, aimed at one thing the staff think is holding him back. Most improvement happens like this and none of it makes the paper.
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Uneasy
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Tromso book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad30 Nov 2026
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 dugout30 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Vetle Skjærvik 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.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mathias Berge 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bjorn 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stefan Hauge 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathias Strandberg is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tromso this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathias Tønnessen, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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 Tobias Børkeeiet has written the date down.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mads Mikkelsen is on it.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Leo Cornic story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Leo Cornic signs something — a contract at Tromso or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Jesper Grundt 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 Jesper Grundt is on it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Leon Hien 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.
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Crisis
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match31 Oct 2026
Tromso come up short against Molde
Molde left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$3.4M 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Vegard Riise to a room that had heard them before.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Tromso
Johan Solstad-Nøis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Sander Innvær 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.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
After 14 games, Tromso finally taste it again
The first defeat in 14 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Rosenborg; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Match24 Oct 2026
Rosenborg left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vetle Skjærvik, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Vegard Riise after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Molde 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Vegard Erlien is not enjoying his job description
Played out of position, hooked on the hour, asked to be somebody he is not — the details vary and the mood does not. Tromso have a player doing his work under protest.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
14 unbeaten for Tromso
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Tromso did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Stabaek made Tromso work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
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 dugout19 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Vegard Riise on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Steady
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Tromso
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Vegard Riise was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Tromso dressing room was either.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sander Innvær 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Stromsgodset came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Oct 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Tromso
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Tromso
Tobias Børkeeiet 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobias Børkeeiet, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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 dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Vegard Riise was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Tromso dressing room was either.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A Tromso teenager takes the young player award
Troy Nyhammer is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Viking will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Match28 Sep 2026
Tromso are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Tromso
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 5 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
The big one: Viking come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Tromso will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Viktor Ekblom
7.83, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Tromso had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tromso
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
It needed Viktor Ekblom to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Sarpsborg 08, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Triumph
Match19 Sep 2026
Tromso make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tromso have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Daniel Braut, 21, steals the show — 7.96
Marked 7.96 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Tromso, 2‑0 the final word against Haugesund in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match19 Sep 2026
Tromso keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Vegard Erlien was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.56. 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 dugout21 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Vegard Riise could afford to be generous.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sander Innvær, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Sep 2026
Tromso make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tromso have 4 straight wins of it.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Edvardsson. 1‑0 against Mjondalen, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
David Edvardsson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.00. 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Vegard Riise kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Evensen-Jensen, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Jesper Grundt 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 Jesper Grundt is on it.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
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Match5 Sep 2026
Tromso make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tromso have 3 straight wins of it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tobias Børkeeiet, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Lars Olden Larsen’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tromso.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 8.12 — 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Vetle Skjærvik has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tromso.
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 Tromso, another week without a signature from Tobias Børkeeiet.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniel Braut 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Vegard Riise could afford to be generous.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
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Market31 Aug 2026
Aalborg 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Daniel Braut, 21, steals the show — 7.81
Marked 7.81 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Daniel Braut’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tromso.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tromso
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Vegard Riise kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isak Vådebu, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Tobias Børkeeiet 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.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Tromso bow out of the cup
Rosenborg go through and Tromso go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Daniel Braut, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63
A mark of 7.63 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.76 for the rest of it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$260.0K was the most the club would pay and Sandefjord were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match22 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: David Edvardsson. 1‑0 against IK Start, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Tromso
A 2‑0 win over Viking, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Sander Innvær takes the afternoon — 8.22
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sander Innvær provided it, and the 8.22 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tobias Børkeeiet has just signed for Tromso, and for once the answer mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tromso say no — this time
The offer from Odd 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.98, 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Deadline passes with 17 signed and 2 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Tromso offered $810.0K; Sandefjord said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sarpsborg 08 have kept their man, and Tromso go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Sarpsborg 08 wanted more than $920.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Braut commits to Tromso for another 5 years.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Birger Berge joins the Tromso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Birger Berge is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kristian Haaland 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Fredrik Singh has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Martin Hauge joins the Tromso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Hauge is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lars Olden Larsen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $790.0K for Anders Hiim
Tromso have gone to Sarpsborg 08 with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Josef Baccay has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Tromso have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Kalmar FF have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ole Kristian Lauvli. The answer from Tromso has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Aug 2026
Tromso rescue it on 90 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 90. Bodo/Glimt had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Tromso training over how hard people work
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Squad
Tromso are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
Viktor Ekblom is still being punished for one mistake