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FORMER COACH: Simo Valakari. Photo: Terje Mortensen
Tromsø IL President Stig Bjørklund confirms that Simo Valakari has finished as Tromsø coach. It is after disagreements related to the club’s operations now that football has stopped.
Tromsø IL and Simo Valakari agree to end the collaboration. This confirms Tromsø Chairman of the Board Stig Bjørklund to VG on Sunday night.
That’s right. We had a review with Simo today, and we have agreed to separate the teams, says the chairman of the board in Tromsø, Stig Bjørklund to VG.
It was Northern Lights who first mentioned the case.
Valakari joined Tromsø in June almost three years ago. He ensured that the TO relegation threat remained in the top series. That same fall, he extended his contract until 2020. Last year, he signed a new contract that would expire until 2022.
Tromsø IL became number 10 in the 2018 elite series, before it was 15th and relegated to the OBOS league last season.
Sports reasons, on the other hand, are not the reason why they now separate teams according to Bjørklund.
– In the special situation with crown eruptions and layoffs, we have different views on how to take the club further. It has been a direct and orderly process, he says.
The President declares that the financial part of the final agreement makes sense for both parties.
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Nordlys also posted photos of players emerging from a meeting that took place in Skarphallen on Sunday night.
The players will have met with CEO, Kristian Høydal, President Stig Bjørklund, AS Vice President and President Astrid Strandbu, Board Member Lars Espejord and other TIL administration and administration staff.
During the meeting, the role of the coach should have been a theme.
Tromsø striker Mikael Norø Ingebrigtsen tells VG that he knows nothing about the firing of Simo Valakaris. When asked if he really doesn’t, he responds “without comment,” referring to the club’s board of directors and general manager, as well as TIL captain Simen Wangberg.
VG has not contacted Wangberg.
Since the Northern Lights are known, there has been a situation within the club administration that has created sparks between Coach Simo Valakari and the people on the club board and administration.
Valakari himself should not have attended the meeting.
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