Talk of the “Bodo/Glimt curse” has become fairly common. When looking into the clubs history on player sales, Victor Boniface may be the highest level alum, but even he went for “only” a reported €6.1 million to USG before his next move to Bayer Leverkusen for €22.6 million.
Boniface moved to USG in 2022-2023, which was the same season Joel Mvuka went to FC Lorient for €5.5 million. Patrick Berg went to Lens for €4.5 million the prior season, and Jens Hauge to AC Milan for €4.8 million during the COVID season, both of whom are back at Bodo/Glimt for sums below for which they were sold.
More recently, in the 2023-2024 season they sold Hugo Vetlesen to Club Brugge for €7.75 million and Faris Moumbagne to Marseille for €8 million, with the former being a productive attacking midfielder in Belgium. They purchased Albert Gronbaek in 2022-2023 for €4.8 from Aarhus, then sold him for what appears to be the current club record sale of €15 million to Stade Rennais in 2024-2025. He’s gone on loans to Southampton, Genoa, and Hamburg, with the latter just paying €4.7 million to acquire him permanently.
Bodo/Glimt have been part of the peer group within the player trading benchmarking I conduct on Celtic each season - the most recent edition available here. Given the history, and particularly with attacking players, it is understandable for people to have some concerns about a “curse.”
Of course, in Huddle Breakdown Land, I see more misattribution vs a curse.
This first graphic displays basic performance metrics from their respective domestic league seasons, with 2026 current 15 games into the season. Per a quick web search, it appears their annual revenues have more than doubled over this period, with the latest report for 2025 somewhere around £50 million (estimate given fluidity of exchange rates).
We see from the performance metrics that the team’s level of domestic dominance has increased along with their revenues and correlated with their ascension into the 2025-2026 Champions League.
The club’s operating model is a unique one and been extremely effective, blending home grown talent with selective recruitment - mostly from other Norwegian and Scandinavian leagues.
But the story has not been similar to an analytics-fueled explosion in player trading volumes, ala Tony Bloom-related clubs. It seems to be heavily impacted by an incredibly well coached and consistent game model - think Askou’s Motherwell on steroids for those unfamiliar.
But what about Kasper Hogh, specifically?
The Dane began in his home country prior to moving from Aalborg to Stabaek for €350k in 2023, then to Bodo/Glimt for €700k in 2024.
He turns 26 on December 12, 2026, so is in his prime years. We can see from this first benchmarking graphic that he earned his move to Bodo/Glimt via limited minutes at Stabaek, but was a relatively productive striker in that brief stint. He was more of a finisher than a creator - that would come later at Bodo/Glimt. Some differences in style of play and his utilization within a far less attacking side at Stabaek were evident.
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