Mikael Lustig is looking forward to the derby against Hammarby. The main player in AIK is on an expired contract – and the arrival of his close friend John Guidetti at AIK may keep the 35-year-old going after the season.
– I haven’t made a decision yet, but of course it’s not a shame to have many close friends on the team, he says.
AIK He recovered from the first blow against BK Häcken. After playing eight matches, the Svenscan team is top, two points ahead of Hammarby, who has played one game less. look now Michael Lustig Before the derby on Sunday.
Hammarby did well and we did well and it will be the big match. A fun game to play, says the right-back.
What do you say about your team this year?
– So we have a mix of older and younger, then maybe not a huge number of aged players. But Jordan gave us a lot. One shouldn’t just blindly stare at the targets but he was superior from day one. It was important. Perfect age and don’t complain. Many young people showed their front feet. Everything is much easier now that we start winning matches.
Do you think you’ll lead the Allsvenskan after eight rounds considering how it all began in the match against BK Häcken?
– No, of course we were pretty much in agreement as to what we should do next. Then we know that it is Allsvenskan. It’s a crunch a week ago, and you’re the best in Sweden the next. I think all the teams last year had their peak and then there was a crisis, so no wonder.
What do you think you did differently?
– We may have worked very similarly as we did before. We closed the net and kept a clean sheet, and although we won 1-0 often, we had bids to be able to close matches. Last year it was about scoring first and then defending. Against MFF, Varberg and Gothenburg, we who have offers on several targets and feel more dangerous than them.
– this is the difference. Although they may have more ball than us.
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Michael Lustig’s contract expires after the season and he has not yet made a decision on whether he will continue playing next year. Perhaps the arrival of close friend John Gedetti at AIK this summer will make the former national team player want to continue for another year.
– we will see. I feel very satisfied with the situation as it is now. I don’t feel any pressure that I want to lengthen or confirm whether or not I should quit smoking. At the moment, there is a long season left and you have to start thinking about it in the future.
– Now I live in the present and I feel very good.
Could it make any difference between signing John Guedety for three and a half years, and that it might be a factor that keeps you going?
If you want to continue, you have to feel that the club is on its way somewhere, that it is pointing forward for the club and for him. Certainly, it is not a shame to have many close friends on the team.
– But I won’t make a decision for long.
“I thought he was a kid”
What else do you say about John coming here?
– At first it was thought he was mostly recent, but since then I’ve known about him for a long time now, though I thought it would be hard to bring him home already now.
– But he chose to come home is very interesting, he was born in 1992 and has a lot to give. A good recruiter in every way. Especially how he is as a person, there will be buzz around the club and above all he will contribute on the pitch and strengthen us there. So it’s a good signature in every way.
He once said about your friendship that maybe you weren’t expected to have such a close relationship. But you became close friends when you became a Celtic teammate when you played together there in 2014-2015?
– No, so we are quite alike. But only when we met, he thought I was an old man up until then, and I thought he was a kid who just wanted to show himself in the media, Lustig says and laughs.
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– But, no, we are incredibly similar on so many levels and we clicked quickly. It is a friendship that has and will continue to be.
Talking that Gedetti won’t make it in AIK doesn’t give the 35-year-old much.
No, it would be better to put more pressure on the player on his return home than on the outside. On the outside, it becomes more like a job and you focus more on yourself.
– Here at home you have friends and family and everyone is very close to football and the club. It becomes more intimate here indoors than outside where there is a certain distance to everything.