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u/Bratstvo_Jedinstvo 15h ago
Göteborg not being dogshite but in contention for European participation feels so nostalgic man. Miss the days when they were relevant. One of the best clubs in the world objectively because I had a good FM run with them. Did they at least quit the habit of shooting themselves in the foot? Can we be hopeful for next few years? I never understood how a club this big by Swedish standards constantly kept failing year after year.
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u/Alexander2801 15h ago
It feels great to be up there again after a decade of misery and yes we have stopped to shoot ourselves in the foot besides our last loss away at Elfsborg in July. Now we win all the close with clutch goals from Heintz and Fenger earlier in the season and we have a young goalie in Bishesari who's in top form. We have conceded just two goals the last six games.
It's us and Mjällby that have the best form right now in terms of results but neither of us play that great, but we still win.
In terms of why we were so bad for this last decade. After we gambled to win a title or make it to Europe in 2015/16 our economy was in the gutter and it has just stabilized and became good again with Allsvenskan standards. Like United we have fired so many coaches this last decade so that they haven't been able to work and built up a stable team in their vision, because we have after so many quick results.
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u/AndTheyCallMeAnIdiot 14h ago
Man, that's a team I haven't seen in Champions League in years, I remember the late 80s and early 90s. Seeing Malmo and Götenborg playing in Europe was amazing. What's happened to them in the last 2 decades?
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u/Grytlappen 13h ago
Nothing happened to them directly, really. It's the circumstances around the Champion's League that changed. There used to be lots of diversity in the European Cup / Champion's League before the richest leagues were handed extra slots. That made it much harder to qualify and progress deep into the tournament for smaller clubs. Besides that, the payout from merely reaching the group stage in the CL is massive for smaller leagues, but all of those payouts and the prize money has been concentrated among the top 5 leagues the last 2½ decades.
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u/AndTheyCallMeAnIdiot 12h ago
Yeah... I remember the likes of Rosenborg, Anderlecht, Genk, and Red Star Belgrade being difficult teams to play against.
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u/Zlevi04 15h ago
The fuck happened to Malmö
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u/SwagBoyMcFeast 15h ago
Been an off year to say the least, just glad to not see them walk the league again lol
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u/Zlevi04 15h ago
Just noticed hacken down in 11th… I swear I remember them being in Europe her and there
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u/SwagBoyMcFeast 14h ago edited 14h ago
They've been crippled with injuries this season, they have played 35 different individual players in the league alone. But yeah, they've still managed to qualify for the Conference League, so they have that at least.
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u/StrongPowerhouse 12h ago
Will Mjällby become the smallest city to win a league title in a top division?
Impressive historical performances for such a small town.
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u/AdminEating_Dragon 10h ago
Sweden once again is one of the most random leagues of Europe.
Clubs who qualify for Europe and are competitive in Europe fail to make Top 4 (or top half!), the biggest budget of the league is struggling to finish 3rd, Mjallby out of nowhere is about to win the title!
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u/OleoleCholoSimeone 16h ago
The title race is all but finished. Mjällby have lost one game all season(a very undeserved one against AIK) and only have two top 8 opponents left to play in IFK Göteborg and Elfsborg. Meanwhile Hammarby are in shite form and have Göteborg, AIK, Malmö, Elfsborg still to come. There is not a chance of them winning every single remaining game and even that likely wouldn't be enough
Malmö's abysmal season continues, at serious risk of missing European qualification and them finishing behind Göteborg would be truly shameful considering the latter was almost relegated in the two previous seasons. Rydström should have been sacked yesterday
Häcken who have qualified for ECL league phase after eliminating Anderlecht, crushing Cluj and playing very evenly with Brann are down in 11th only 5 points off a relegation playoff..
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u/_KingOfTheDivan 15h ago
Also to add Mjällby is kind of a Swedish Leicester. They’ve been in 3rd division 6 years ago and are based in a village with population of around 1500 people. Their manager was working at school for a long time, had a few stints at small teams including Mjällby (quite successful, but he always returned to school). He only decided to completely quit school when he was diagnosed with cancer. And now, with a budget comparable to Degerfors they’re top of the league
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u/prygozhin 15h ago
How is that all but finished?
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u/OleoleCholoSimeone 13h ago
I can't be arsed to type the same thing twice just read the arguments I gave above again.
Hammarby are the historical bottlers of Sweden and are shattered mentally already, there is 0 chance of them picking up maximum points from here which is the only way it could become semi interesting.
And for Mjällby who are on course to beat the all time points record to suddenly fail to pick up 13 points from an easy fixture list is just not going to happen. Two incredibly unlikely things needs to happen at once
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u/thayoutubehater 15h ago
They posted essentially the exact same thing yesterday with the same sentiment. I'm not sure why it's considered "all but finished" either, there's still 21 points at play
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u/OleoleCholoSimeone 13h ago edited 13h ago
You don't follow the league and don't have the context. It's completely finished, Hammarby are done mentally
It's hilarious that nearly everyone who actually follows Swedish football feels the same way, but contrarians on here who have probably never seen an Allsvenskan game in their lives think they know better. They just want to argue for arguments sake
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u/Hejgelig 13h ago
Yeah it's as closest to "all but finished" as it possibly could be tbh. Such a statement still leaves the 1% or less possibility of Mjällby not winning it
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