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Greenock Morton Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Jonatan Johansson as our new first-team manager on a two-year contract.

The former Rangers, Charlton Athletic, Norwich City, Hibernian, and St Johnstone striker takes charge with immediate effect.

A Finnish international who won over 100 caps for his country, Johansson began his coaching career at Cappielow as co-development squad manager with David Hopkin in 2012.

From here, the 43-year-old moved to Motherwell and took charge of their Under-20s before spells as an assistant manager with both the Finland national team and, most recently, Rangers.

Through our previous working relationship with Skelmorlie-based Johansson, we saw potential as a first-team manager and identified him as our primary target to fill the role.

Jonatan is a real student of the game and, as well as impressing with his knowledge and ideas during discussions, his aims and ambitions were in line with our own. This was vital.

The board of directors recognise that we have a fantastic changing room comprised of a talented group of players and we wanted to ensure that there was a synergy between them and the new manager.

We firmly believe that Jonatan’s structured mindset, hunger to succeed, and personable manner will be an ideal fit with our current squad and are thrilled to welcome him to the club.

Chairman Crawford Rae said: “We are absolutely delighted to announce Jonatan Johansson as the new manager of Greenock Morton Football Club.

“Jonatan has a fantastic CV, both playing and coaching, and has been eager for an opportunity to get into management. We are thrilled about our appointment and we look forward to sharing this new chapter together.

“JJ has a fantastic work ethic, a great football brain, and I cannot wait to see him in action as we rekindle Greenock Morton’s long-standing Nordic association of over 50 years.”

 

https://gmfc.net/2018/09/06/jonatan-johansson-appointed-morton-manager/

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No doubt folk will moan but I'm quite positive about this tbh, he'll be looking to cut his teeth and make a name in management. I'm right behind him.

I have no compunction in saying that if some chap starts throwing grenades or starts using pistols, we shall kill him

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I'm happier with this than I was with the appointment of McKinnon.

 

Same but I underestimated McKinnon, I think. He had the team playing some good stuff.

 

I'm just very glad we dodged a Mark McGhee-shaped bullet and instead went for someone fresh. Crawford's announcement hits the right notes and implies heavily he wants JJ to work with the squad he has, which is great.

 

There is absolutely no telling how this is going to work out but right now I'm feeling positive.

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It's obviously a gamble which could blow up in their face, but when the alternatives are the likes of Barry Smith and Lee McCulloch you have to understand the board taking the gamble: they certainly can't be accused of playing it safe. None of us really know how this'll go but good on the club for acting quickly.

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Quite happy with this appointment. Looking forward to hearing his ideas on the game.

 

He always seemed a bit soft spoken to me so will be interesting to see how he deals with the players during the hard times.

Good people will do good things, bad people will do bad things, but only with religion do good people do bad things!

 

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Not the Finnish manager that some have hoped for over the past few appointments. Glad we went for a younger, up and coming (hopefully) manager rather than selecting from the usual parade of failures.

 

Knows the club having been here before. Few too many links to the local area to risk a 3 month snaking. Isn't an East Coast snake anyway. Decent coaching experience. Different set of contacts (as noted above, gets the credit for bringing Morelos to Rangers) - time to plunder the Nordic market.

 

Pretty content with that when we were staring at Lee McCulloch or Mark McGhee.

 

Welcome JJ.

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Echo the above, guy HAS to be given a chance though

What makes you think that he won’t?

The site is supposed to be a place for the extended 'family' of Morton supporters - having an affinity with people that you don't know, because you share a love of your local football club. It's not supposed to be about point scoring and showing how 'clever' or 'funny' you are, or just being downright rude and offensive to people you don't know, because you can get away with it. Unfortunately, it seems the classic case of people who have little standing/presence in real life, use this forum as a way of making themselves feel as if they are something. It's sad, and I've said that before..

 

So, having been on Morton forums for about 15 years I guess, I've had enough... well done t*ssers, another Morton supporter driven away. You can all feel happy at how 'clever' you are

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Because some of the posters on here seem to have no patience whatsoever, how many names, players or managers, merely mentioned and they are written off as being s***e. So, if his first game isn't a 6 nil away win some nugget will be writing him off

There's a huge difference between saying they are shite pre-appointment, and not giving them a chance.

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