eliteserien, Aalesund | Lars Bohinen reacts to the director of AaFK after his dismissal:

It has been almost two weeks since Lars Bohinen was fired as Aalesund’s coach.

In a press release, the club’s management wrote that they had chosen to end the collaboration with the 50-year-old who has played 49 international matches for Norway.

– After the promotion to the Elite Series last year, the club this year has shown weak results over time. We are at the bottom of the table after a half-played series and we see the need to make changes to further develop AaFK as a superior club, they wrote in the press release in late August.

Bohinen himself has said shortly after it became clear that he had finished his work, but appeared on the Chivadze podcast on Thursday.

There he opened about time at the Sunnmøre club. The podcast is run by former journalist Josimar, Frode Lia, and former sports director at, among others, Start, Tor Kristian Karlsen.

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– If you buy OBOS players, you get an OBOS team

The trio talk in the episode about many topics from the world of soccer. Finally, they also enter the Aalesund period, which ended with the dismissal of Bohinen.

– We had a very well balanced team and players who could do things on their own in 2019. Players like Pape Habib Gueye and Aron Thrandarson, we had key players available most of the time and when we didn’t have them we were good at getting new ones. Bohinen explains about the excellent promotional season.

Bohinen says that the club rose with the belief that the season would be very good, but that the economy was much worse than the sports management thought.

– We talked about bringing Gustav Valsvik from Rosenborg and we looked at that level, because we thought that we would get more finances than what became reality in the end. We look at the players on a completely different shelf than the one we ended up with at the end.

The players Aalesund eventually got believe that Bohinen were guys with potential, but in the coach’s opinion they had nothing but OBOS quality as of today.

– I’ve always said that if you buy OBOS players, you get an OBOS team. Not to put anyone down, but Simen Bolkan Nordli came from the OBOS league and it was very good for HamKam. We brought a midfielder from Finland and the Finnish first division is OBOS level. We picked up a level two Dutchman in the Netherlands who was free.

The former Sandefjord coach explains that finances play an important role in building a strong team. He also has experience as a sports director in both Vålerenga and Stabæk.

– What we ended up with was a stable where 58 percent of the players had no Elite Series experience and the rest had a little here and a little there, plus some who had a lot. Then came the crown as part of it, with layoffs and stuff. When the series began, key players were injured all the time. We let in terrible goals and it got so brutal. Rival teams scored in every attack and it’s almost as if he couldn’t understand it yet, he summarizes later.

When Bohinen was fired after the 1-3 loss to Haugesund, the team had scored a total of seven points from 15 games and was definitely last on the table.

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Comes with sticks for the general manager.

When the crown hit Norway in full force, Aalesund laid off players and employees. The players were separated and did not undergo contact training for two months. When the team assembled, Bohinen and the rest of the coaching staff quickly saw that something was missing.

– We already saw in training the first week that we were out and it had been too long. Time’s up, a tenth here and a tenth there. Balance and tackles and so on. Bodø / Glimt, who had trained throughout the period, probably didn’t lose as many relationships and what I call ball sensation during that period.

He didn’t improve when Aalesund started the season with two points in the first five games and a horrible 7-17 goal difference.

The pressure on the club quickly became great from the surroundings.

– What often happens is that the board and the CEO get so much pressure and lose weight that they can’t resist. So often there is only one way out. Those who have been with it for a while at least tolerate it better than those who experience this for the first or second time, a bit like it happens now at AaFK, says Bohinen.

The online newspaper contacted the CEO of Aalesund on Friday, Geir S. Vik, and presented him with the former coach’s statements.

– I have no comment on that. He will be responsible for his statements, Vik tells Nettavisen.

Aalesund Leader: – Choose not to comment

Hostess Lia shoots in an observation about club operations and goals in soccer.

– I know that Aalesund, like several other clubs, has a board with very little sporting experience. Is one expected to conjure up the objective and realism of mtp here?

– Player logistics is of course what is important here, and I think it may not have been clear enough before this year’s season. It is the clarification of expectations, that we have the same vision of things and that I am clear about what I think and want to say. So the club should aim to be in the top six in three years, but this year it’s about staying in many ways, he responds.

– There we were not clear enough, nor was I clear enough to think that the team with which we started the season was worse than last year. We have a CEO who thought the team we had was better than last year. Andrea and I (note from assistant coach editor) thought it was worse. Then we start to lose our minds a bit, continues an honest Bohinen.

When Nettavisen asked Vik if he had any ideas on what Bohinen is saying about his opinion that “the team was better this year than last year,” the Aalesund leader is ready.

– Yes, but I choose not to comment. We have finished our job, he responds.

– Have you had contact with Bohinen after he was fired in August?

– It wasn’t natural. Aalesund has chosen to terminate employment. I have no comment beyond that, it’s a past chapter, continue.

Back in the podcast studio, Tor Kristian Karlsen wonders if a general manager should think of something about the team being better athletically compared to last year..

– Internally he can do well, but he said it externally. So I wonder if I was the one who wasn’t clear enough, or if people don’t see it. Are there other mechanisms that come into play here? I think it may be the last, but it is not the case that everyone has a chance to win a medal. Clubs must see their place in the hierarchy to a greater extent.

– I think I have better conditions to think about the strengths of the team this year compared to last year, than those of many others, including the general manager, who comes from the tourism industry. I can agree that I was not clear enough in clarifying expectations for next season. It may be that we were flattered by last year’s results, concludes the now retired coach.

Just two days after Bohinen was fired, Aalesund hired Brann’s former coach, Lars Arne Nilsen, as his new head coach.