The football year has barely begun in Allsvenskan and yet transfers are heavy between Swedish clubs.
Sportbladet silly expert Daniel “Disco” Kristofferson presents this week, among other things:
This is where Hoy could end up – two clubs want to sign the AIK star
Ludwigson’s huge salary in South Korea
Fancy AIK goalkeeper problem
This is how much MFF is paying for Taha Ali
Helsingborg searched for an alternative
Giant AIK offered to buy Markus Antonsson
Goalkeepers who ignored Degerforce – so the chase continues
Durmaz to AIK deal done
Nabil Bhawi can move here
Nabil El-Bahwi’s contract with AIK expired and the two parties could not reach an agreement even though they had been in dialogue for a long time. New coach Andreas Bernström will want to keep Naby and consider him an important part of building the squad in 2023, but the question now is will there be a continuation in Janajit?
Thus, no agreement was reached and the contract expired just under a week ago. And according to Sportbladet’s information, Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus and Istanbulspor in Turkey now want to sign the AIK winger. El-Bahwi was offered a contract by both clubs so his career could continue abroad, although AIK was not completely ruled out yet. We should have an announcement soon regarding the bhawi.
Giant Gustav Ludwigson held in South Korea
Ulsan Hyundai announced yesterday the signing of Gustav Ludvigson from Hammarby. Hammarby will receive just over six million kroner for the 29-year-old, who now opts for a move to South Korea for the next three years.
– I would like to thank the people working at the club who gave me the opportunity to come here from the start, and those in and around the club who have made these three years so great from day one. But, in the end, it is you Hammarby supporters who make Hammarby such a special club and the way you welcomed me and the support you showed me through thick and thin was better than I could have dreamed of. My thanks humbly for that. Good luck next seasonLudvigsson told Hammarby’s official website when the news became official.
In a short time he moved from the fifth division with Mölnlycke and the third division with Sävedalen in Sweden, via OIS and Hammarby in particular, to the South Korean champions. Given the contract he has in South Korea, it’s no wonder he’ll be moving on.
The K-League does not have the same financial statements as the Chinese League. However, it was a huge contract that the 29-year-old turned down last winter.
You could earn more than 20 million over three years
According to Sportbladet’s information, Ludwigson was then offered a 3.5-year contract totaling around SEK 27 million with bonuses. At the time, Ulsan Hyundai was also second in the league in terms of wage costs, and among other things, attacking midfielder Valeri Kazaisvili, formerly of the San Jose Earthquakes under Mikael Stahre, earned around SEK 11 million annually. The person who topped the foreign player salary league in 2021 is Cesinha from Daegu FC, who earned nearly KRW 1.5 billion, which is roughly equivalent to SEK 12 million.
In 2022, Gersu Fernandez has the best in the league with an annual salary of 1.7 billion won, which is equivalent to SEK 14.1 million excluding bonuses.
Ludwigsson also gets a very favorable contract, and if all the bonuses work out, where it comes to performance-based bonuses for goals, league placements and matches in the AFC Champions League, she could earn more than SEK 20 million in total over three years.
This is how much MFF is paying for Taha Ali
During yesterday Sportbladet managed to uncover a small bomb in the Allsvenskan silly circus. Malmö FF is close to signing Taha Ali from arch-rivals Helsingborgs IF. The transfer is just a detail far from complete, and as I understand it, the transfer amount amounts to around SEK seven million. Ali signed with Helsingborg before this season and the club then paid SEK 2.7 million for the player. Now the transfer amount will be a little more than seven million, since Orebro has the right to receive a certain percentage of the transfer amount.
Helsingborg has already started looking for replacements and it’s about the club wanting to bring in an outside midfielder to replace Ali. The club is fairly advanced in talks with potential replacements and HIF also wants to bring in a centre-back and a midfielder. However, it depends on the economy as to how many players a club can recruit.
Luxurious goalkeeper problems have been dismissed degerforce
A few days ago, AIK announced that the club had extended the contract with Budimir Janosevic. The extension is for two years, and as I understand it, it was former sporting director Henrik Gurelius who completed that extension a long time ago. By the way, one of the last decisions he made at AIK. Janosevic is a really good goalkeeper and a great guy in the group, don’t talk about that. But given that Under-21 national team goalkeeper Samuel Brolin is now in the squad and can imagine being the number two goalkeeper and, as I understand, would prefer to finish his contract and move on as manager in a year or take out a loan until the summer, so perhaps the current sports management has not make the same assessment.
Then the logical thing was for Brolin to be the second guard. Now it looks like you have three very expensive goalkeepers on the payroll and now AIK is forced to loan Brolin out or try to sell him for cheap money, if that works? Competition among goalkeepers is fierce, Elfsborg player Tim Rönning is also going to be sold and there are plenty of good goalkeepers on the market. As I understand it, Degerfors was also rejected by Samuel Brolin, as was the Norwegian Sondre Rossbach. It remains to be seen how AIK will now solve the goalkeeper problem…
By the way, I wonder if former Gif Sundsvall goalkeeper William Eskelinen is not a name for Degerfors, who will have two goalkeepers for next season.
AIK offered Markus Antonsson a huge contract
AIK is hardly on the lazy side when it comes to trying to sign players, and the club has brought in a raft of new signings already, including the likes of Omar Farag, Rui Modesti, Aboulsalam Megashi, Abdelhakine Ali and Ilyas Durmaz.
But AIK CEO and acting sporting director Manuel Lindberg has been open about working on a wide front and according to Sportbladet information, AIK also made a serious attempt at IFK Värnamos player Marcus Antonsson and offered him a very profitable contract from a financial point of view. However, that was at least a month ago, and it is likely that Antonson will continue his career abroad. Which team to expect will be clear in a week or so.
At the same time, it probably didn’t matter how much money Swedish clubs paid when they heard that IFK Värnamo had offered Antonsson a very good contract, backed by billionaire businessman Bengt Liljedahl.
From what I’ve heard, he should have received a contract offer from IFK Värnamo that would have made him one of the highest paid Allsvenskan players ever, with a monthly salary of 200-300,000 kroner, excluding the sign-on bonus.
But now, as I said, Antonsson may be waiting for an adventure abroad.
Jamie Durmaz’s AIK deal done
It was colleague Len Nordstrom who revealed over a month ago that AIK had ended negotiations with former MFF player Jamie Durmaz and that the two parties were close to agreeing a contract. Subsequently, Sportbladet also wrote that it is expected to be presented after the new year.
Now the deal has been finalized and AIK will offer Durmaz soon. The 33-year-old is also on location in Stockholm, where Expressen took photos yesterday. Thus, a worthy midfielder strengthens AIK, which has lost such experienced players as Mikael Lustig and Sebastian Larsson. Durmaz performed well under coach Andrea Pirlo at Turkish Karagumruk, where he played as a sixth and still sitting midfielder in recent seasons.