Cardiff boss VG interview: (google translate)
http://www.vg.no/sport/fotball/champion ... /23269444/- You never walk around being afraid of losing your job
Solskjær about: * Dæhli * Having received the family to Cardiff * The press
Tomorrow the league opens with the club away against Blackburn, and the goal is clear: Promotion on the first attempt to the Premier League.
- We are among the 5-6 favorites, but to move up we have to earn it. We need continuity and stability, says 41-year-old when VG meet him at the office manager in the Vale of Glamorgan outside Cardiff.
Solskjær says that he and all others must achieve to convince the club that he is the right man for the job.
- Can you keep your job on Cardiff not promoted?
- There is no automatic in anything in football. I go to work every day to improve the team. I was asked yesterday if I was afraid of losing my job. But one is never around and are afraid of losing their jobs. You always look for opportunities, and this club has opportunities.
Cardiff bought a lot of players early in the transfer window and signed Tom Adeyemi (22) from Birmingham today. Recently, however, several major stars disappeared from the Welsh capital.
Both Steven Caulker (22), Fraizer Campbell (26) and Jordon Mutch (22) are sold, and there are indications according to Solskjær that Gary Medel move to Inter is in order.
- I knew that both Caulker, Campbell and Mutch had clauses, so we had to sell when it came bids. I thought it was going to happen, so I was early. It has also always been a risk that Gary Medel would be sold, both for what he has done in the past and what he did in the World Cup. An it is soon in box with Inter, says Solskjaer to VG.
But Cardiff have been well paid for the stars.
- If Medel goes, I have recouped 150, almost 200 million (Norwegian krones), considering the transition budget. We've got the players who keep the level free and cheap.
Jordon Mutch should have gone for in excess of 60 million, Steven Caulker for around 80 million and the price of Gary Medel will be over 100 million.
Solskjaer is not quite finished with the action, and says he wants a new defender after Ben Turner was injured long term.
- There has been speculations about Forren?
- We are one of the clubs it has been speculated about the most, without there having been anything to it. But I do not comment on names. I have seen some, to put it that way.
In winter he brought three Norwegians to the club. Mats Moller Dæhli played for a permanent seat at the end of the season, while neither Magnus Wolff Eikrem or Jo Inge Berget got much playing time. Solskjaer, however, is no stranger to retrieve more Norwegians to the club.
- No, I am not. I know the boys well then, and brought them the most in terms of this season. And there was not much we paid for them. Mats were stunningly good last year, and has become the fans' favorite. He gives us energy on the court and do unexpected things.
Everyone in the club has taken him to their hearts. In the preseason Magnus has been fantastic. I have received many compliments that he is going to have a good season, and I'm quite sure. Magnus is going to bloom this year, the pressure he will just have to take. And I am confident that he is really going to show what he is made of.
- How is the performance of the Dæhli?
- He had a good summer. He has put on some more muscle, but not much. Mats is Mats, he will get better every day. He, I also believe that is only going to grow more and more.
- If he's an important player for you this year?
- Yes, of course. He came into the team and was more or less fixed at the end of last year. He's going to get as many chances as everyone else to show that he will play the next game.
- You can not promise him a permanent seat?
- No one is promised a permanent seat. You have to perform, whatever. But I'm not worried that he's not going to make it.
The interest in the youngster from other clubs Solskjaer does not want to say anything about.
- We have not got any bid, to speak. He is still our player. It is written much up and down when we get the talents. Now it's Martin Ødegaard who gets it, he says.
Solskjaer says he looks at Cardiff as one of 5-6 team that are expected to compete at the top of the Championship this year. He believes the team has had a good run up, ignoring any injuries in defense. For Blackburn match is long injured Ben Turner and suspended Juan Cala outside. Mark Hudson has also been plagued by injury, but announced himself recovered on Twitter last night. In addition, Cardiff´s Matt Connolly is one of the central defenders.
- I have never been in the Championship, either as player or coach. There will be a new experience, but football is football. There are eleven players against each other, typically on a green track.
- How is the press to move up?
- We know that it is important for teams that have been relegated to jerk upright again. Each year it is gradually less and less chance for promotion. The club has supported me in signing players who I am sure will take Championship level, but I also feel are Premier League players. But there are many layers there. Derby were unlucky last year. Fulham and Norwich have spent more money than we have. Blackburn are among the favorites, he says.
In the summer holidays Solskjær also have got his wife Silje (40) and children Noah (13), Karnataka (11) and Elijah (6) to Cardiff.
- They start school in September, so it's nice. When we are together, he says.
VG wrote earlier this year that Solskjaer would also get his brother in law to the club, which would also make the network around the family better.
- I do not build networks around the family. I'm thinking of building the club. They employed him to improve the club. If I would have had network around the family, I would had stayed home. But he works in the club, yes.