Currently the manager of Blackburn Rovers, Jon Dahl Tomasson is currently one of the favourites to get the Sweden national team job.
There have been many stories about the Dane potentially walking away from his job at Ewood Park to facilitate the move, but that has yet to happen.
Fotbollskanalen managed to have an interview with the General Secretary of the Swedish FA, Andrea Möllerberg, who is part of those needing to choose Janne Andersson’s successor, and she was inevitably asked about the Blackburn boss.
Fotbollskanelen add their own information first, as they have been told that Tomasson will be ‘more attractive’ to Sweden if he were to leave Blackburn first, because then the FA will not have to ‘buy him out’ of his contract at Ewood Park.
She said: “I don’t know if he has left. I just saw that there was a rumour. I’m a little unsure, but it has probably started. We understand that many of those we talk to are under contract. The vast majority. So that’s part of the process of course.
“We have to deal with that, but it also becomes a challenge when we have savings and the like. So we have to be a bit careful with our costs. Regardless of whether you take a Swedish or a foreign manager, there are different challenges.”
Appointing the Blackburn Rovers manager would be a first for the Swedish FA, who have never had a non-Swede in charge of their national team, and their aim remains to have their new man in place by the end of the first quarter of the year.
