A lot has happened around IFK Gothenburg lately.
On September 3, the club announced that head coach Poya Asbaghi was allowed to leave.
The next day, the club announced that Pontus Farnerud would take over the role of sports director from Kennet Andersson, who would be an advisor.
- It has been turbulent.
A lot of emotions but also discussion and reflection on how we should continue to work with what we have built up over time.
It will be at least as important to continue the job we started to get where we want.
Max Markusson, club manager in Gothenburg, said in connection with Asbaghi being fired that the ambition was to have a new coach ready for the meeting with Hammarby.
- Well, I do not know if the idea was.
Possibly someone commented on it.
We are working on it and hopefully it will be ready in the near future.
"There are no cracks"
On Thursday, there were also reports that there was disagreement in Blåvitt about the coaching issue, where the split stemmed from whether Roland Nilsson or IFK Norrköping's Jens Gustafsson would get the job.
It is denied by Farnerud.
- If you want to listen to everything that is said and written, you go crazy.
That's something I learned in this job.
There are absolutely no cracks and there is total agreement on the issue of the coach.
So you know who you want?
- Yes.
Who?
- I can not answer that.
Have you had contact with Roland Nilsson?
- I can not comment on that either.
When do you expect to have a coach ready?
- Hopefully in the near future.
As you know, we have a match on Sunday and it would be nice to have it ready before that.
CLIP: "Thinking mainly of Poya as a human being" (3 Sep 2020)
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Robin Söder: "Thinking mainly of Poya as a human being" Photo: SVT