{"id":273410,"date":"2025-11-20T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273410\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:10:10","slug":"hammarby-chief-players-on-kim-hellberg-middlesbrough-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273410\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammarby chief & players on Kim Hellberg Middlesbrough move"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Hellberg is a hugely popular figure in the Hammarby dressing room having led the side to successive second place finishes in the Allsvenskan.\n<\/p>\n

\n But the Swedish club’s players have long known that it was only a matter of time until Hellberg moved on.\n<\/p>\n

\n Swansea wanted the 37-year-old at the end of last season, and although Hammarby managed to hold on on that occasion – with the Swans instead appointing Alan Sheehan on a permanent basis at that stage – even the club’s sporting director admits he’s had plans in place for the head coach’s exit.\n<\/p>\n

\n That will be confirmed in the coming days, with Hellberg set to take charge of Boro<\/a>. Formal confirmation is likely to come early next week. Hellberg will be joined at the Riverside by assistant David Selini.\n<\/p>\n

\n And while Hammarby’s players are obviously disappointed to see him go, Besara says he will leave with full backing from the dressing room.\n<\/p>\n

\n He said<\/a>: “I see him as a friend, not just as a football coach. If this is the best thing for his career, I\u2019ll support him.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We have a good connection, and we\u2019ve been talking quite often now too.”\n<\/p>\n

\n The midfielder added: “Of course, I would like to have Kim in Hammarby for the rest of his life. But sooner or later, when he is doing so well, this would happen.\n<\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe\u2019s a friend of mine and we have talked about everything. Our families have become close to each other and everything. Of course I will miss him.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

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\n Hammarby’s sporting director Mikael Hjelmberg said: \u201cIt is no secret that we have planned for a future without Kim, even if nothing is formally clear. In our thoughts and in our planning, we have prepared for a future without Kim.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Boro<\/a> have been on the search for a new head coach since Rob Edwards walked out to join Wolves at the start of last week.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Championship club spoke to candidates in the days that followed, with Hellberg then emerging as the stand-out frontrunner after impressing club officials when they met for talks in London.\n<\/p>\n

\n Adi Viveash – who will stay at the club and be part of Hellberg’s coaching team – will lead Boro against Oxford this weekend. Viveash is speaking to the media at Rockliffe this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hellberg is a hugely popular figure in the Hammarby dressing room having led the side to successive second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-273410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}