It’s not just the Danes who have really opened their eyes to Bodø/Glimt. – Players who leave Norway’s best club have a stamp of quality that they take with them.
The elite league club plays Norway up in the rankings and past Danish club teams, young Danish players get a jump in their development and have the best springboard out in Europe. On Wednesday, it was a Danish 16-year-old who scored a hat-trick for Bodø/Glimt. Albert Grønbæk went to school with Kjetil Knutsen and the gang before signing with Rennes last summer, now he is facing a potentially very exciting transfer.
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147 minutes in the match arena since January. It doesn’t help that the former Bodø/Glimt player is in the Premier League, the world’s biggest league. It is certainly nice to experience English football from the inside for the 23-year-old, but Grønbæk is not with Southampton as a tourist. Now there are reports of a transfer that could get Grønbæk back on track.
A “consolation” as he now sits on the bench and doesn’t get the chance to prove how good he is.
When Albert Grønbæk sat in on his first press conference as a Danish national team player last autumn, he gave great cred to Bodø/Glimt. Ligue 1 club Rennes had seen what the Dane achieved in the yellow Glimt shirt, the transfer came last summer. This turned out to be a huge downer, a loan contract in the Premier League has also not given Grønbæk the playing time he needs to get a call from the Danish national team coach.
Grønbæk made a mockery of Danish journalists, when he crashed into the national team and impressed directly from his debut in September 2024. Big play and scoring against Serbia made the Danes ask themselves: “Where did Grønbæk come from?” The answer was Bodø/Glimt. Between 2022 and July 2024, the central midfielder went to school with Kjetil Knutsen and the Bodø/Glimt gang.
Kjetil Knutsen, it was revealed today, is Norway’s highest-paid coach.
It started okay at Rennes, then came chaos and a change of coach, where the angry Jorge Sampaoli made sure that Grønbæk was pushed out into the cold. In January, there was a full rift between the Rennes management and Grønbæk, it was a loan to Southampton and the Premier League – for bench life. This may change by the summer.
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The supporter media Coeur Marseillais has caught that Marseille and Roberto de Zerbi are showing great interest in Grønbæk. Southampton have an option to buy the Dane at €15.5 million, but for the 23-year-old, the stay has cost him his place in the national team and the club down in the Championship will have less money than now when we get to the summer.
Marseille already have the Dane Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg in the squad, where the former Tottenham player immediately established himself as one of the best defensive midfielders in Ligue 1, so the trail has opened up for Danish players – and Grønbæk.
Marseille must be considered a French giant club and PSG’s arch-rival, but have all too often gotten themselves into giant problems, where the coaches are changed at a rapid pace. Roberto de Zerbi seems to be “surviving” his first season as Marseille coach and is third in Ligue 1 down one place after Saturday’s loss to Reims. Paris Saint-Germain, on the other hand, ran over Eirik Horneland’s Saint-Étienne and are effectively champions again.
Sounds like a very exciting next destination for the former Bodø/Glimt player and very right for Marseille.
