Hammarby canceled deal with Lok
Everything was actually clear on Deadline Day on Tuesday: Williot Swedberg and Lokomotiv Moscow had reached an agreement and everything had also been negotiated with his club Hammarby IF. However, the transfer of the Swedish midfield talent to the Russian first division team coached by Markus Gisdol did not materialize – in addition to problems with the papers, also because of the escalating aggression against Ukraine. This means that a change in the summer is also off the table.
“It was a very delicate and difficult matter. We had a lot to think about and we took it very seriously,” Hammarby’s sporting director Jesper Jansson said in an interview withPhotobolls channels“. The situation in Ukraine “played a very important role” in the negotiations for the 18-year-old junior international. It was not justifiable “both from a moral and a safety point of view”. “In addition, we did not push the issue and were not dependent on a sale.”
Club chairman Mattias Fri rules out the possibility that Swedberg could switch to Lokomotiv at the second attempt in the summer. “It’s hard for me to imagine that we would sell a player there. And I can’t imagine any player wanting to go there now either,” said Fri. “From a moral and human point of view, we would not do that.” However, a transfer always involves “many players, not least the player himself, so it is difficult to say anything with certainty”.
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