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6th place: Rosenborg
MARBELLA (Nettavisen): – Rubbish, Rosenborg’s new Swedish coach shouts in English outside the training field in Spanish Marbella.
The message is as relentless as it is clear. Johansson is not satisfied with the quality he sees from his players. The feedback is unmistakable.
– We want to have a culture of learning in Rosenborg and we call a spade a spade. If something is good, we say so, if something is less good, we say so, Johansson explains to Nettavisen.
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– In order for us to have that, it is also important that we have a clear “feedback” culture, so that you know if what you are doing is right. Whether it is good, less good or whether we want to change something. That is why I consider it an important part of my job, he continues.
A few days later, Rosenborg loses a training match against Vålerenga.
– “What the fuck is happening?”, screams the same man in the dressing room to his own players.
The tirade is picked up by Nettavisen and the other media present in Spain.
You can see everything from the OBOS league, as well as a number of matches from the Eliteserien at Nettavisen on Direktesport.
– Got all the cards on the table in advance
The tone was set early in the run-up.
The 33-year-old is new to coaching at senior level, but he doesn’t handle the players with silk gloves or treat them like junior players for that reason. This winter, to the surprise of many, he got the job as Rosenborg’s next permanent head coach. He has experience from junior football in Sweden and Denmark – most recently as U19 coach at the big club FCK.
– The process that led to me getting the job was very thorough. I think I got all the cards on the table up front, he says.
It has been a turbulent period in RBK with cutbacks, pay cuts and of course the historic bottom listing last year with 9th place in the Eliteserien.
Johansson knows it well herself. He has been given a clear task. Rosenborg will return to the top.
He talks about the team’s development and that the training methodology and playing style have been his biggest focus.
– We want Rosenborg to have a European cut to what we do. Rosenborg will be a European club and an international club. We must improve in all phases. That’s my analysis. Our style of play will ensure that we can do it, he says clearly.
He himself has long been concerned with looking up and looking beyond what the best teams are doing. Innovation and trends are therefore important.
– It can give us direction and an understanding of where football is going, and what we must be good at.
Rosenborg failed in the Conference League qualifiers against Scottish Hearts last season. The last time the European wholesaler took part in a group stage on the continent was in the Europa League in 2019.
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Many opinions about Rosenborg
The Lerkendal club is perhaps the club that is written and thought about the most in Norwegian football. When the sporting results do not deliver, criticism comes quickly. Johansson noticed the skepticism even before he had led a single training session.
Among them is Rosenborg legend and former football expert Jahn Ivar “Mini” Jakobsen.
– I am very excited about how a man without a CV in senior football will come in and take hold of Rosenborg. Now you need someone who comes in with some balls and gives notice both to the upper east and inside the club about how things should be. There are many strong personalities in Rosenborg, said “Mini” to Nettavisen before Johansson had even been introduced.
“Mini” reacted to Rosenborg having ended up in a situation where they hired a coach who had never led a senior team before.
– When I talk to people who have worked with football and know it, I have received almost unison support that people think this is strange, he said a few months ago.
Over the winter, however, the two met at “Brakka”. Now Johansson reveals how he experienced that meeting.
– “Mini” came by and said hello. He welcomed me to Rosenborg and Trondheim. He said he was rooting for us. He seems like a pleasant guy and I know how much influence he has had on Rosenborg as a club historically. It was nice to have the opportunity to talk to him.
Johansson clearly says that he has not spent much time reflecting on whether he thinks the early criticism has been unnuanced and unfair.
– Mini in his position has the right to say exactly what he wants, he says.
Now the season run-up is almost over and Johansson has tried to keep as much as possible of what happens on the outside at a distance. Maybe it wasn’t so easy after the humiliating 0-5 loss in the dress rehearsal against Viking.
Then good advice and habits can be good to have on the road. Just like the ones he got from Norway’s national team manager Ståle Solbakken in his angry days. He managed FCK when Johansson joined the Danish club.
– He is one of the people in football that I have met who has had a very big effect on my development as a coach. I greatly appreciate the trust, the feedback and the time he has spent on me in the past, says Johansson.
The advice from the Norwegian national team manager may come in handy in the coming season.
TRANSITIONS:
IN:
Rasmus Sandberg (Stjørdals-Blink)
Pawel Chrupalla (back from Wisla Plock, Poland after loan)
Marius Sivertsen Broholm (back from Kristiansund after loan)
Agon Sadiku (back from Start after loan)
Tomas Nemcik (loan from MSK Zilina, Slovakia until the end of the season)
OUT:
Oliver Holden (Ranheim)
Per Ciljan Skjelbred (Ranheim)
André Hansen (Odd)
Oscar Aga (loan to Fredrikstad for the rest of the season)
Rasmus Wiedesheim-Paul (Halmstads BK, Sweden)
Olaus Skarsem (CSKA Sofia, Bulgaria)
Morten Bjørlo (Fredrikstad)
TRAINING MATCHES:
VIKING – ROSENBORG 5-0
ROSENBORG – NARDO 2-0
ROSENBORG – KRISTIANSUND 2-2
ROSENBORG – TROMSØ 3-0
MOLDE – ROSENBORG 1-1
ROSENBORG – VÅLERENGA 1-4
ROSENBORG – FIRE 0-2
ROSENBORG – AALESUND 2-1
RANHEIM – ROSENBORG 1-1
ROSENBORG – THE PEOPLE’S TEAM 8-0
LAS PALMAS ATLÉTICO – ROSENBORG 0-0
LAS PALMAS U19 – ROSENBORG 1-0
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