The Swedish Superettan side has approached SJK for permission to speak to their head coach.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Finnish side are expected to reluctantly give the green light to open negotiations with their highly-rated 38-year-old.<\/p>\n
It is expected that a deal could be done over the coming days, although there is interest from other clubs in Europe and Finland, including HJK.<\/p>\n
The Helsingborg club made their move after they sacked Kleber Saarenpaa at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Helsingborgs had finished a disappointing seventh in a campaign where they had been looking to push for promotion back to the top-flight.<\/p>\n
Grieve has worked wonders at SJK and took them into the Conference League qualifiers this season.<\/p>\n
He has worked with one of the smallest budgets in the Finnish league and they lose a lot of their top players at the end of each season.<\/p>\n
Grieve\u2019s success in Finland has also been achieved with one of the youngest squads in European football.<\/p>\n
Current Dundee United defender Dario Namoo is one of the players that Grieve helped to develop.<\/p>\n
He moved to SJK as head coach of their second team in 2023 and stepped up to the full job last season.<\/p>\n
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Stevie Grieve<\/p>\n
His coaching career began in India with Garhwal and then became academy manager at Burlington SC.<\/p>\n
He returned to Scotland to work at Dundee United before he became head of recruitment at St Johnstone and then moved to take up a similar job with Forest Green Rovers.<\/p>\n
Grieve made his return to coaching in Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Finnish side are expected to reluctantly give the green light to open negotiations with their highly-rated Stevie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13716,2336,218,2818,8058,101,114120,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-279035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-dundee-united-fc","tag-europa-conference-league","tag-football","tag-scotland-football-team","tag-scottish-premiership","tag-sports","tag-st-johnstone-fc","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279035","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=279035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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