Another Molde Signing?

First topic message reminder :

Jo Inge Berget is alleged to have arrived at Heathrow today.
He has the same agent as OGS, Arthur Daehli, and the Wolffman.

I loved Tore Andre Flo and Morten Gamst Pedersen. What is give to have them in their prime at City now!

TDA wrote:
Maybe not recently, but not so long ago, these gentlemen were gracing the top flight here, having come from the Norwegian league.......

Ronnie Johnsen
Thomas Myhre
Olvind Leonhardson
Henning Berg
Stig Inga Bjornabye
Gunnar Halle
Vegard Heggam
Egil Ostenstad
Tore André Flo
Alf-Inge Haland
Morten Gamst Pederson

.......and OGS

We have seen some cracking durable footballers come out of Norway over the years and do very well in the English game.  There are plenty of others, I am sure, who could be aded to that list...........John Arne Riise for one, although I think he played in France before going to Liverpool.......  

Yes, but all these are from another era than what we have today. The national team in that period beat Brazil two or three times in a row and was ranked no. 2 in the world (believe it or not) at one point. http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=nor/ranking/gender=m/ Our national team now cant even qualify for WC with the easiest possible group seeded as no. 1.

Riise never played in the Norwegian PL and he is the only one of these still active (except for Gamst Pedersen who plays in Turkey). That was a golden era in Norwegian football. I'm not trying to tell you that the signings are terrible, or that the players don't have potential. I'm just saying that these signings are not who keeps Cardiff off relegation. At least not this year. Ofc I want the best for these norwegian signings, Solskjær and Cardiff. I'm just being realistic (or pessimistic some might say)

Slumdog's Son wrote:I agree Dave. We have to strengthen and whilst these guys may not be the quality needed for the Champ League, we simply need to survive this year without being relegated. If they manage to help us achieve that then all the better. And I certainly don't have any reason to doubt OGS' signings so far as Eikrem and Daehli are highly rated

  

I think we just got to trust Ole with there signings.

ludd wrote:

TDA wrote:
Maybe not recently, but not so long ago, these gentlemen were gracing the top flight here, having come from the Norwegian league.......

Ronnie Johnsen
Thomas Myhre
Olvind Leonhardson
Henning Berg
Stig Inga Bjornabye
Gunnar Halle
Vegard Heggam
Egil Ostenstad
Tore André Flo
Alf-Inge Haland
Morten Gamst Pederson

.......and OGS

We have seen some cracking durable footballers come out of Norway over the years and do very well in the English game.  There are plenty of others, I am sure, who could be aded to that list...........John Arne Riise for one, although I think he played in France before going to Liverpool.......  

Yes, but all these are from another era than what we have today. The national team in that period beat Brazil two or three times in a row and was ranked no. 2 in the world (believe it or not) at one point. http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=nor/ranking/gender=m/ Our national team now cant even qualify for WC with the easiest possible group seeded as no. 1.

Riise never played in the Norwegian PL and he is the only one of these still active (except for Gamst Pedersen who plays in Turkey). That was a golden era in Norwegian football. I'm not trying to tell you that the signings are terrible, or that the players don't have potential. I'm just saying that these signings are not who keeps Cardiff off relegation. At least not this year. Ofc I want the best for these norwegian signings, Solskjær and Cardiff. I'm just being realistic (or pessimistic some might say)

I don't think that it is a coincidence that Norway enjoyed its best footballing period when your best players were playing in England. Let's hope that this is the start of the revival for you internationally.........  

I think Riise started at Aalesund before being transferred to Monaco.......

But not in the Norwegian PL