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I agree there. The timing would be better starting pre-season. I think you would be able to buy him free though. for maybe 3-5 millions or something. Edit: Also, if main purpose of new manager is to stay up this season, you would be better off with a coach who have turned things around before and have experience with relegation fights. Dean Smith may be better at that than Lampard, but Lampard might bring more energy. Long-term I have no doubt about.

As a norwegian I had to comment on this 🙂 As you yourself mention condescending attitude, you might try and avoid that yourself 🙂 I can tell a little story. About my Rosenborgs legendary coach Nils Arne Eggen. Knutsen's inspiration as a coach. Eggen managed Rosenborg from 88 to 2002 (excepting 98). The coach from the ludicrous little norwegian leagues. He started managing Rosenborg in 1988, where he remained until 2002, except for a sabbatical in 1998. This is the team's golden age, resulting in 11 consecutive league titles and the participation in eight consecutive seasons in Champions League. Eggen returned a manager for the single 2010 season, again winning the league. That coach took the team to dominating Norway and going all the way to the Quarter Finals of the Champions League with his progressive 4-3-3 style and coaching style. In other matches in CL they beat Dortmund away 3-0, Real Madrid 2-0 held the unbeatable Arsenal to a draw, drew against Bayern, beat Blackburn, beat the great old AC Milan team at San Siro 2-1, beat Porto, PSG, Galatasaray, Benfica etc etc... This man from the ludicrous little norwegian leagues is for me the greatest coach in the world. Ever. As this is my club, I watched all this unfold. This small club that managed to become one of the best clubs in the world due to Eggen and his fantastic attacking football. Now, as Knutsen with the same style and Eggen as his inspiration, starts doing something similar with a much smaller club than Rosenborg even, in this modern age where the bigger Leagues have a lot more money and UEFA has made qualifying even harder for smaller nations, such feats are even harder, even; we want him. We see what he can do. We remember Eggen and this is the first time we se someone that manages to coach that kind of football. For me, a coach does not need to have experience in the bigger leagues to be a great coach. Now, I am not saying it is a guaranteed success, for any club, to hire Knutsen. The potential, though, is greater than with most coaches. The biggest negative must be the cultural and language differences. Knutsen needs time to implement his style, which demands a lot of drilling to be perfected. If Norwich had played Knutsens Bodø/Glimt at it's best I think you would loose. Knutsen did not only beat Rome, he molested them. Would a League one team manage that? So, when does a great coach from a smaller nation qualify? Is it better to wait and see that coach go somewhere else, or do you gamble? Does it become a "might have been scenario" or an avoided bullet? No risk no sucess. I hope he comes to my club so we can again play great football. But I do not know what will happen.

Milos Milojevic from Hammarby is said to be okay. Also the two coaches at Djurgården pherhaps (Kim Bergstrand and Thomas Lagerlöf. Those have been mentioned in my clubs search for a coach in media at least. I have been at a concert with Ronnie James Dio at Hell by the way 🙂 Used to live right besides Hell, just a km away 🙂 Now some miles further north.

It will be okay. Since his injury is a torn ligament between his pelvis, and he has pain issues the first couple of days after a game, he will just need a little time to recover. He says himself that he is fine, just that he is in pain when he goes to bed and when he wakes up and is a bit messed up after games. But he will propably have to operate after the season is over. Here is an interview with him in norways TV2 : https://www.tv2.no/a/14341986/ You will have to google translate though 🙂

I have been following this situation as I am a fan of Rosenborg, and we want Knutsen ourselves. I can say that I agree with Olano. If you want a coach that will make your team play great possession based attacking football, and make every player look better than they are due to the systematic patterns of play AND have a little patience - then Knutsen is the correct coach. Do bear in mind that Bodø Glimts success is not ONLY Knutsen. The club apparatus has several persons with the same playstyle ideas and you will need the club to support Knutsen fully. He is a demanding coach, and no primadonnas or ego players will make the selection under him. It will all be about the team. However I do think Knutsen is a very progressive and modern coach. I hope we get him at Rosenborg, otherwise we propably will end up with another old school coach and boring football. Some of BodøGlimts players are rejects from Rosenborg. However, in BG under Knutsen they have flourished, where with us, they looked like they would never have success. With Knutsen you will have Plan A only. Yes. But that is a good thing. Knutsen uses only role players. That way every one always knows what to do. The patterns of play are drilled into the bone marrow. He does not change a winning team, neither does he rotate much. His primary inspiration as a coach was our Nils Arne Eggen (Rosenborg 90s success in CL and 13 years of home league domination) and that is why all our fans wants Knutsen. But he has tweaked that 4-3-3 style a lot and it is very modern. You could say that Knutsen makes a team excel at what it does. Since he focuses on the same stuff over and over until the team plays like a fine tuned clockwork. However, that of course demands the right profile of players. Key elements Knutsen looks for in players propably is speed, technique and vision of play. Also that the players agrees to be a part of the team and accepts the role within the team 100%. Also younger players are molded easier. The problem would be the timing There will not be much time this season in between matches to drill patterns of play etc. and that would make staying in the PL hard. I would rather look at Knutsen like a long perspective coach. FK Bodø/Glimt 2020 Season Tactical Analysis

I can not find it either, but if it was green shirts then yeah propably HamKam. Not many teams with green shirts.

Hahaha 😄 I just had to register to add another vid here. I have never seen that vid you linked and I am a noggie. Hilarious! There are players from my club in the vid also. I have been reading a bit in here since Normann joined. You guys have a much more fun and chill forum atmosphere than most others! I am a Rosenborg supporter and follow norwegian players a lot. Here is Norways most famous keeper fail, maybe some of you that are old enough have seen it before :