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New Swedish nationwide crew boss, Jon Dahl Tomasson, has claimed that Manchester United’s Victor Lindelof might not essentially be his aspect’s captain.
The United defender was given the captaincy in August 2021 when Andreas Granqvist retired.
Sweden have struggled throughout Lindelof’s captaincy as they solely completed third of their Euro 2024 qualification group.
The Scandinavian aspect may solely acquire ten factors from eight matches and completed effectively behind each Belgium and Austria of their group.
The aspect’s detached type led to the sacking of Janne Andersson and the appointment of the previous AC Milan striker.
Talking to Sport Bladet, the brand new coach claimed that he wants time to determine some key traits of his new squad.
“All of the issues like captain and the way we’re going to play, I can be very concrete about after we get a bit additional alongside,” he mentioned.
“I first have to satisfy the gamers and after that I can be very concrete in my statements about what I take into consideration the state of affairs”.
“To begin with, (they want) to point out management, that’s the extra essential factor. The second is, and it applies to everybody, that you just play with honour and are proud to play for the nationwide crew. I’ve heard from many within the group that the Swedish gamers actually love taking part in for Sweden. It’s superb, you have to have it and present it on the pitch”.
The 29 12 months previous centre again has additionally had a difficult 12 months for his membership as he’s very a lot solely a rotation possibility for Ten Hag and has solely performed 23 occasions this season regardless of the fixed harm points United have had on the again.
The 36 12 months previous Jonny Evans has usually been most well-liked to Lindelof and the Swede has been linked with quite a few strikes away in the summertime window, with Sevilla mentioned to be very focused on a deal.
The Västerås born defender can be hoping that even when he loses his place at Previous Trafford, he can persuade the brand new coach and maintain maintain of the position of his nationwide aspect’s captain.
