“The Swedish Allsvenskan in football”
“Gren’s criticism of world CUP hero: ”Kennet do not want to take responsibility””
“GOTHENBURG. Parting from the IFK Göteborg, he has come across.”
“But not the betrayal that Mats Gren, 55, claims that he was subjected to by with Max Markusson, and board member, Kennet Andersson.”
“– Some were not honest with me, ” says Branch.”
“just Over six months after he was fired as the controversial director of sports of IFK Göteborg, set Mats Gren up on an interview with Sportbladet and talks about how he perceived what happened when he was forced off, years with the Blue and white and the future.”
“When Sportbladet meets Branch at home in his apartment in central Gothenburg, he is speaking of the IFK Göteborg as ”we” and very much welcome the success the club has had in recent weeks.”
“the Tag is still since he was fired 10 October 2018, four days after that IFK Göteborg played 2-2 at home against Trelleborg, is about the betrayal he feels himself exposed.”
“”did not Come over a night””
“– and I think I’m straight forward and honest but I feel that some were not honest with me. The decision to kick me, did not come over a night. Therefore, I thought you could have brought it up or said it before. I have been with long enough. That is why I am a bit sour on some people still.”
“– Poya stack me not in the back. He was deppad when I left, we had a tight relationship with the high ceilings. Mats Engström (IFK Göteborg chairman) is also not the type. He avoid all of what the conflict is. It is his weakness.”
“– It is the Max (Markusson, sporting director) and Kennet (Andersson), but I have not said it straight out to them because I’m not left in the IFK Göteborg more.”
“How do you know that it is they who pushed the hardest that you’d get fired?”
“– You learn to read people and immediately get a gut feeling. Two days after I came home from Hawaii, I would play paddle with Richard Berkling (member of the board and IFK Göteborg). Kennet Andersson would also play, but did not know that I would be with, I think. “
” When I came in, saw Kennet as if he had seen a ghost. He did not know in which direction he should look.”
“– But so it is in this industry, know that both I and the Kennet. Every man’s bread and so on. I certainly don’t want to sound bitter about this, because I am not. I just answer how it all landed with me, and the gut feeling I got immediately, ” Branch.”
“Tipped the Kennet as a director.”
” I’m pretty sure that my suspicions were right because I also told my closest friends that I thought it would take so long time before Kennet was sports director. “
“Then at the end of march is Kennet Andersson acting director of sports of IFK Göteborg since the Blue and white has not yet filled the vacant position after the Mats Gren.”
“Kennet Andersson says that he does not want to become a sports manager full.”
“– It is clear that he must say so. He might not want to take the responsibility fully if it had continued to go badly.”
” My feeling from the beginning was that it would not get into a new sports director. I said to Max Markusson, he could just as well write ”redundancy” in my avskedspapper. “
“– I shall not say that they have tried to find a new sports director. Had Thomas Berntsen (sporting director of Sarpsborg) accepted so had he gotten the job, but I don’t think they have worked themselves to death when he declined.”
“know not the former sporting director any anger towards how he received the news that he had been fired – by telephone – when he was in Hawaii with their daughter Malin and her family.”
“– That I really want to see that you take with – it bothers me not at all to IFK Göteborg announced me when I was there. I am totally at ease with. They could not be happy to sit and wait in the nine days that I would come home. I was not angry that I received the news over the phone. They were forced to do so.”
“Footnote: Kennet Andersson and Max Markusson have had to take some of the criticism from the Mats Gren. Both have declined to comment.”
