After advancing to the Champions League’s round of 8, ESPN highlighted three players in particular as “rising stars”: Jens Petter Hauge, Kasper Høgh and Håkon Evjen. Hardly a transfer window goes by without European clubs flocking to Bodø to secure one of the club’s biggest stars, but this time the situation is completely different.
One is of course that Glimt rakes in millions of euros without player sales, with a straw down into the Champions League treasure chest. More importantly, players in the Glimt shirt have seen a Kasper Zinckernagel, Albert Grønbæk or Ola Solbakken fill up their savings account out in Europe, but otherwise little to be happy about as a football player. Jens Petter Hauge disappeared to AC Milan in 2020 for 24 games, got a round at Eintracht Frankfurt with 56 games, then loan to Gent for 29 games.
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When Hauge continued to wander from one club to another without much success, the decision came to return to Bodø/Glimt. First on rent, then permanently. A little over a year later in the yellow Glimt shirt, the global football press has caught up with the 26-year-old with his goals against Dortmund, City and twice Inter Milan.
ESPN highlights Hauge, Høgh and Evjen, the question the three must ask themselves is why they should leave Bodø/Glimt at all, not which club they should choose “out there”.
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Because it is at Bodø/Glimt that the fun is, it is where the game is, that brings out the potential in the players. Not on some bench at a big European club with a coach who is happy to be fired the season later. Albert Grønbæk asks.
