Sivert Heltne Nilsen has finished in Brann. Brann reports this on its website. On Tuesday evening, Sivert Heltne Nilsen traveled with agent and uncle Geir Morten Nilsen to Aberdeen for a medical check-up and negotiations. This is the last step before he signed with the Scottish club. The outgoing Brann captain passed the medical check and is now ready for a new club. – There is no one who can replace Sivert Heltne Nilsen and the role he has filled, but it opens up to add new things, new spice, in this fire team, says BA commentator Jonas Grønner to news. Heltne Nilsen has been captain of Brann for two seasons. He has played almost 200 games and scored 26 goals for the team. Photo: Tuva Åserud / NTB After Aberdeen wanted to buy the midfielder, Sportsklubben Brann has accepted an offer. They confirmed that on Tuesday. – We received an inquiry from Aberdeen who wanted to buy Sivert. After an overall assessment, we have chosen to accept the offer, says Brann’s sporting director, Per-Ove Ludvigsen, in a press release on their website. An acquaintance of the Aberdeen boss Former Elfsborg coach Jimmy Thelin is now boss in Aberdeen. The midfielder and Thelin know each other from before. Heltne Nilsen was in the squad in the Swedish club from 2019 to 2021. – I think Brann handles this quite nicely. He gets a three-year contract over there with a sum that is already much higher than what he earns in Brann today, says Grønner. Brann is currently in second place in the table in the Eliteserien, just over halfway through the season this year. They will meet Haugesund in a thrilling Westland derby at Brann Stadion in Bergen. Many have been shocked by the captain’s transfer. Photo: Roy Hilmar Svendsen / news – Have lost trust – Now it’s just as well that he leaves, so we don’t have to deal with the noise and insecurity he creates around the club, says Erlend Ytre-Arne Vågane. He is chairman of the supporters’ club Bataljonen. It did not come as a shock that the midfielder left Brann. He believes Heltne Nilsen has lost the trust of many of the supporters after he has tried to leave the club several times, but the captain has also been an important player. – It creates a lot of doubt as to whether he actually wants to be at the club, and whether he saw the club as higher than himself, says Vågane. Chairman of the Battalion Erlend Ytre-Arne Vågane in battle. Photo: Brann Bataljonen Bergen Not for the first time In July 2018, he left league leader Brann for the tiny Danish club Horsnes. At the same time last year, there was also a storm around Heltne Nilsen when his agent expressed that the Fire captain did not want to play for the club. This despite the fact that the team had just won the cup and were fighting at the top of the Eliteserien. – That the captain left the ship in that way in such a season as Brann is in now, I think people struggle to relate to that, says Grønner, and adds: – It is primarily those who have not forgotten 2018 , and those who have definitely not been forgotten last year, and then they will have another bang this year. I think it’s hard for people to swallow. Published 11.07.2024, at 16.04
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Sivert Heltne Nilsen is done with SK Brann – the captain goes to the Scottish football club Aberdeen – news Vestland
