Gästkrönika: An Ijeh farewell
Forumets kanske mest långväga supporter, vår Italienska vän Giuliano, reflekterar över Peter Ijeh och IFK Göteborg.
Peter Ijeh to FCK. Yes, now it's true. My girlfriend couldn't hear me more singing "Ijeh! Ijeh! Ijeh!" without knowing what I'm saying. Only the last "bad news" I had to read in my sad Italian mornings. In the last 10 years my passion for IFK gave me only sadness. One by one. We never win Allsvenskan, we don't play in Europe, we only sell good players and sign weaker ones.
I don't understand if IFK would be a top team again. In early ྖ we were the best Scandinavian team, with great distance from the other clubs. Now Rosenborg competes every year in CL, Brondby and FCK buy all the Scandinavian stars from Elmander, to Linderoth, to Ijeh. Malmo and Djurgarden share SM-guld, and Ellos buy back Anders Svensson and build a new arena.
And IFK, what does it do? Why we cannot compete with that clubs? What we don't have instead of them? We have tradition, great fans, great sponsors...
Why IFK doesn't buy a top player? Ok, we have bought Ijeh 1.5 years ago, but if we sell him now, it's totally useless. He's 28, in the best age for a player. Now we only have too old (Mild, Alex, Bengan) or too young (Byarsa, Kalle, Ozzy) guys in squad.
I'm totally discouraged. We won 4-0 against HBK with 3 goals from corner. What a success! Maybe now we'll draw against Gefle and go out from Europe against Hungarian Pope. Don't you remember ZIMBRU. What a shame!!!
I remember matches on Italian television against Milan, Barca and Man U. I remember articles on Gazzetta about IFK young stars (Blomqvist, Bjorklund, etc...). I remember my Italian friends ask me: "What's going on IFK?". Now they have completely forgotten IFK.
I would believe in a brilliant future for my beloved football team. But if they continue to give me stabs in back, my faith is falling down...
Giuliano Adaglio
Ps.
I dream that one day Blåvitt could be a respected team again, with good economy and the force to retain its best players and buy the best on the market. A team that could present Ijeh and Allback in the same day, a club that could sell his star to Ajax for 15 millions of Euro, a club that could play with PRIDE against all the team in Sweden and Europe!
Ds.
