Around the same time as Bodø/Glimt started their “reign” in Norwegian football, Swedish Mikael Dorsin took on the very demanding job as sports director at Rosenborg in 2015. – It has been anything but easy and Rosenborg is far from a return to the top of Norwegian football.
In fact, it is even worse this season where they are down to 14th place in the Eliteserien and looking for a new head coach.
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As soon as Mikael Dorsin said goodbye to Trondheim this winter, he moved to Copenhagen to be closer to his son Leo Dorsin.
The Swedish sporting director has been in dialogue with Swansea, and he has also turned down another Championship club.
Mikael Dorsin is a sought-after man among several clubs. Tipsbladet reports that Dorsin has received a number of inquiries and offers, but answers rather cryptically to questions about the future. – I have a few different options that I am considering.
The 44-year-old Mikael Dorsin turned down a job as sporting director at a Championship club, and at the same time he has been in dialogue with another club in the second-highest English division, namely Swansea.
The former Swedish international has also been linked to the vacant position of sporting director at his former club Djurgården. But he does not appear to be a man who is in a hurry to make a decision.
The crisis in Rosenborg – from heyday to sporting collapse
While Mikael Dorsin is now considering his future, Rosenborg is facing one of the deepest crises in the club’s modern history. After Dorsin left the job at the turn of the year, the Trønders have struggled tremendously both sportingly and administratively. The team is at the very bottom of the Eliteserien, and the supporters have lost faith in both players and management. Several profiles have left the ship, and the financial muscle that Dorsin helped build now feels like a distant dream. The lack of a clear sporting director has become more than apparent, and Rosenborg is desperately looking for a new sporting director who can clean up the mess – while former success makers like Dorsin himself are turning down or looking for new challenges abroad.
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Back to Dorsin’s financial success in Rosenborg
At the turn of the year, Mikael Dorsin left his job as sports director of the Norwegian big club Rosenborg, when the Eliteserien had come to an end. At Rosenborg, he was sports director for a long period – from 2020 to 2026 – and from 2023 he was the most responsible manager of the club, which in his time carried out record-breaking sales and achieved close to half a billion Norwegian kroner in transfer income with sales to major leagues and clubs such as Manchester City, Benfica, Lille and others.
According to Transfermarkt, in the period 2022/2023 to 2025/2026, Rosenborg topped the list of transfer surpluses in Norway by a large margin down to number two, as Mikael Dorsin’s club had over 30 million euros – more than 210 million kroner – in surplus compared to the second-best club Sarpsborg 08, which in the same period had 18 million euros (135 million kroner) on the bottom line. This makes Mikael Dorsin the sports director in Norway who has generated the highest profit in the period. The club managed to generate around a quarter of a billion Norwegian kroner on players from their own academy.
The future is uncertain
Time will tell where he will make his presence felt in the future, because there are – and there have been – offers for the Swede, who has moved to Copenhagen at a time when his son Leo Dorsin, who was chased by the biggest clubs in Europe, has signed a contract with FC Nordsjælland, and when the two Copenhagen big clubs FC Copenhagen and Brøndby are both looking for new sporting directors.
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