Tobias Sana talks about IFK Gutenberg’s breakup
Tobias Sana and IFK Gutenberg went their separate ways after an alleged altercation with coach Mikael Stahr.
Now the protagonist himself talks about the situation.
– It hurts. It’s unprofessional, he tells SVT Sport.
It was May 19th IFK Gothenburg announced in a press release that it will end cooperation with Tobias Sana. The reason is the dispute with coach Michael Stahr during the match against Kalmar FF.
Sana herself has not commented on the situation – yet.
– It was a conversation so I extended my hand and said “their right-back looks like Messi on the pitch, he has a lot of time and I chase him all the time. I look bad at my journalistic game, we have to find a solution.” I think the coach was upset. My wish was for us to get better. When he said “Focus!” Loudly, I stood up and answered “I am the center” and went against it. When we left the locker room he said ‘focus on the game now’ and then we did the ‘Big Five’, Sana told SVT Sport.
“It hurts me – it’s very unprofessional”
After the incident, the two parties held several meetings, and finally the club announced the release of their player because of it Violate the club’s values of friendly and professional conduct. Sanaa’s message.
– I’d rather say that they violated their own values with friendship in terms of how they excluded me, as I was not allowed to train, goodbye to my teammates, as I had to go through a void mentally and you don’t know what’s going on. Sana says it was rather those who made me suffer from this.
– That this accident should do this, it hurts me, it hurts me. It is very unprofessional.
“IFK backed off – made a definite transformation”
IFK Gutenberg announced on Friday that the two sides had reached a settlement. According to Tobias Sana’s agent, Philip Malm, the reason is that the club “supported” in its statement. This is despite his belief that there are no grounds for dismissal.
– What you can see in the press release regarding that from May 19 is that you’ve made a real transformation. Now we have another situation where they did not unilaterally cut off cooperation but reneged on it by entering into an agreement, says Malm and continues:
– It is a matter of purification in the letter and in what the club publishes. He was commented as not living up to the club’s values. He handled the matter very poorly and it was important for him to refer to it during the negotiations.
The agreement the two parties have now reached means that Sana is free to apply to a new club and does not have to wait until winter when the contract expires.
There are a lot of clubs that have shown interest in him. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw him on a football field soon,” Malm says.