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– It is certainly not positive that this dialogue can take place in the media. I wish we had done it internally. It is important to follow a path where we find a sensible process and resolve the case.
Today the president had an early meeting with the leadership of the national team.
– A process has started. The onus lies with the leadership of the national team to solve the case, Svendsen tells NRK.
Great controversy over the truth
Yesterday, the director of the national team sent a press release saying that Sørloth should have said that the leadership of the national team was incompetent in a meeting to wash dishes after the conflict in Serbia. Later that night, Alexander Sørloth denied the allegations.
– I’ve never said that anyone on the coaching staff is incompetent. Never, the forward replied through his agent Morten Wivestad to NTB.
CONFLICT: Lagerbäck and Sørloth disagree on what was actually said during the players’ meeting after the Serbia match.
Photograph: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB
Sørloth was also highly critical of the national team who sent out a press release on what an internal meeting was, and stated in the NFF press release that he would not comment on the matter.
– I always have honest, direct and clear people as supporters. This time it was too obvious. So clear that they break their own principle of not conducting internal affairs with the press.
– Then you feel lonely when actually you’re going to be in a team, he continued.
The leadership of the national team quickly returned through its media director Svein Graff.
– For four days we have given Alexander the opportunity to comment on what happened and confirm that we agreed to drop the case after he apologized for the behavior, it was in the response of the national team coaches Lars Lagerbäck, Per Joar Hansen and Frode Grodås. .
Be confident at parties
The president says that he himself was not present at the dishwashing meeting after the game, but that he is confident that the leadership of the national team will fix itself.
– I think there was a high temperature after the Serbia match, and that both the coaches, the players and the support staff were disappointed. But I would like those things to be resolved internally without us having a public debate and discussion of the various points of view.
CONFIDENCE: There has been a storm surrounding national team manager Lars Lagerbäck and Alexander Sørloth in recent days.
Photo: Vidar Ruud / NTB
When asked if this will have consequences for Sørloth, Svendsen answers the following:
– It is not the task of the chairman of the board or the president to remove the team. I think the process that the national team leadership is entering into will hopefully be able to build what now looks like a style front and is on a sensible path.
The coach of the national team regretted yesterday that he had referred to a previous match against Cyprus in the discussion with Sørloth. In that fight, as is known, the 24-year-old missed the open goal.
“You weren’t so arrogant two years ago in Cyprus,” Lagerbäck is reported to have said.
Svendsen emphasizes that he still has confidence in the coach of the national team.
– I have full confidence in Lars Lagerbäck. He is the coach. He is because he is a skilled coach, Svendsen replies.
Solskjær believes that the leadership of the national team is a disappointment
At a press conference ahead of the Chelsea game on Saturday, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær also commented on the dispute over the national team.
– I do not want to comment on this particular case, but a group and a team are like a family, and it is disappointing if things come out of the closet and especially because it is true, says Solskjær on TV 2.
CAJÓN: United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjær believes that the leadership of the national team is a box.
Photo: Alex Livesey / Reuters
– A lot has come out that is not true, but when it is confirmed from the inside and I’m sure that the coach and the leadership of the national team are disappointed.
