The Saelnes' hoop. A scream for a victory

That's finally what I wanted to see! Courage, anger, desire to fight and win, even suffering. And all this has been well summarized by the hoop, the scream of Saelnes after the first goal. But it was also visible in the shot of Mikkelsen, shot full of anger and desire to win that damned game. Well done guys, this is your victory. Deplorable behaviour adopted by Strandberg, the team cannot be never left alone. But, my point of view does not change: Hoftun and Perry have to go away, because a victory today may unfortunately mean a defeat more devastating in the future, and this is what every fan wants to avoid.

Zibaldone 15 March 2014

Here I am again to talk about, of course, Rosenborg. Tomorrow we'll play against Kalmar FF, the real first test of the season, and we won't have some players, that are still injuried. 
Tore Reginiussen is still injuried, he had also to stay on ultrasound, in order to see when he could come back, but from the medical staff it is said that we've to keep calm, because it's better to have him at the best, even if this would mean to have him later on the weeks.
Perry had to compose the defense with Gamboa, Ronning, Dorsin and Skjelvik. But Ronning is still not ready for the whole match. Indeed this will be the squad, with the 4 defenders Perry tested: Daniel Örlund-Cristian Gamboa, Micke Dorsin, Per Verner Rønning, Jørgen Skjelvik - Mike Jensen, Mix, Gamst Pedersen - Nicki Bille, Alexander Søderlund, Riku Riski.

Someone said that at midfield we have many problems, because we have so many players, like Mike Jensen, Jonas Svensson, Mix, Daniel Berntsen, John Chibuike, Fredrik Midtsjø, Pål André Helland and Bent Sørmo, the "magnificient seven". I've to say that Midtsjo could be a great resource for us later on, as subsitute of Gamboa. He demonstrated against Levanger what he can do as fullback, but we've to see him against a stronger team. With the Kalmar could have been a good chance to see him, he could demonstrate how he good he was, but Perry decided in a different way. Maybe he'll shift him as fullback during the match. 
I insist on Midtsjo because Perry tested so many players as fullbacks, but nobody did like Midtsjo did (I repeat, Midtsjo played against a weak team). He tried Mikkelsen, Dorsin, but none of them did well. Now, that we've find out a good substitue, he didn't test him. 
In that list of midfielder, there's Helland. But Helland is a forward instead, we all know it. 
He could be considered as lateral midfielder if Perry played with a 4-2-3-1, or something like this. But Perry insists on the 4-3-3, and so that problems doesn't exist.
But reading the squad we can see a great surprise: Gamst Pedersen as midfielder, lateral midfielder. Yes, he can be a midfielder, but as I could see, he's very good at attacking. We have so many forwards, Perry in the last matches used to place in the field a lot of strikers, but according to me in the wrong roles. 
Bille, for example, did very bad when he played as a wing in attack. And we've to consider also that he broke up with his girlfriend, and maybe he could not be perfect tomorrow. But he's a professionist, we know it, and he'll have to play at his best. 
Perry still wants try Soderlund as pivot, with Riku near him. No comment, I wrote about Sode many many times in the past.
What make me laugh, is that Perry seems to test new kind of squads and modules, but indeed nothing changed during this pre-season. We've seen only players shifted in many roles, but nothing clear. The match we played demonstrated two things, according  to me: the first one, that we need Chibuike in every match, and the second one that we cannot play with the 4-3-3 at all. Using almost 4 forwards, it's impossible to win, we could have perfect halfbacks, but we don't have. Mix is very good, but he cannot work lonely in the defensive phase. 
Concerning Mix, still goes on the discussion with the society after he wasn't allowed to play with his national team against Ukraine. Hoftun maybe is yet thinking about a way to sell him. 
In this week Arni Vilhjálmsson trained with us, but the society rejected him. As I wrote on twitter, starts the countdown to see when he'll become a talented. Hoftun pay attention. 

Finally, it turned out that Rosenborg asked to have the UEFA Supercup in its stadion, at Lerkendal, in 2017, for the centenary of the club. 

Chibuike won't leave. RBK's searching the Gamboa subsitute.

Now it's certain: Chibuike will remain at Rosenborg. 
This guy had been given, by the media, "sold" to almost all teams in the world, but apparently he doesn't wanna go away from Trondheim.The news was given by the same player last night to Adresse.no.

I don't wanna go to the Dinamo Minsk or in another teams in Belarus or Russia. There is no aim for me to go to a club that is on par or lower level than Rosenborg.

He had only words of praise for the supporters of Rosenborg

I just don't want to become rich, money aren't everything compared to other things. If I change the club I need a better league where I can develop myself and become better. I must respect my own values, and can not travel only for the money. Dinamo Minsk is certainly a great club, but I must be a 100% sure that I like where I'm going. 
I'm happy to be in the club and the city. The supporters are amazing, and I have only positive things to say here. We'll take it as it comes. 


At the same time it received bids from an Israeli club, but it was so low that it was not relevant to sales. And the RBK is ready to offer a contract extension to the Nigerian player. 

We talked about the extension just before, but now here we go again. Then we will have to discuss it with his agent, says Hoftun.

I have to congratulate him for the sincerity, and we all hope that he'll sign that contract.

So it seems that the joke Bille and Gamboa will not result in reality. Fortunately.


Bille is ok, but maybe the destiny make Gamboa sick cause of that joke for the match against Djurgarden. So Perry has the chance to test the substitute of Gamboa during the World Cup Brazil 2014. The idea is to place Svensonn behind. But he'll not be the unique player "tested". Also Witry has to demonstrate his skills during this months. Mr Hansen has to find out a good substitute, because in that period we'll have to play against Sarpsborg, Strømsgodset, Lillestrøm and Start, and so it will be hard to play without that players. Not only Gamboa, but also Mix of course. 

Maybe it will be very important the summer transfer market