Sven-Goran Eriksson’s mansion ‘going up for sale for £4.8million’ after former England manager’s tragic death
SVEN-GORAN ERIKSSON’S mansion has been put up for sale following his death, according to reports.
The former England manager tragically lost his battle with pancreatic cancer at the end of August, seeing him pass away at the age of 76.
His funeral took place earlier this month in his hometown of Torsby in Sweden.
Mourners turned out in their hundreds to say a final goodbye to the well-loved coach, including David Beckham and Roy Hodgson.
However, according to Swedish media outlet Expressen, Eriksson’s home is now up for sale.
Family lawyer Andres Runebjer is reportedly putting together the finishing touches on the estate registration for Eriksson before putting it up for sale.
The 900 square metre mansion based in Sunne – where Eriksson was born – was his home from 2002.
Named the Bjorkefors manor, it features grounds of approximately 2.5 hectares with another building on the land including a lake villa, tennis court and pool house with a large saltwater pool.
It is estimated to be worth around £4.8million.
It is said Runebjer expects the property to sell relatively easily and hopes the buyer will have some kind of connection to his friend and client.
Eriksson reportedly borrowed large sums of money to renovate the property after moving into it during his tenure as England boss.
But the mortgage deed for the largest loan ended up on the channel island of Guernsey, while it is unknown whether the other loans have been resolved.
The property was placed up for sale for £3m in 2010.
However, the property was never sold and was taken off the market in 2017 after the Swede was fired by Chinese club Shenzhen, with him choosing to live out his final days there.
SunSport’s Shaun Custis and Martin Lipton discussed Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England legacy following his death aged 76.
Custis: “He was the most polite, civil manager I’ve ever dealt with in my life.”
Lipton: “There are many managers who are prone to paroxysms of aggravation and screaming matches.
“You can’t imagine Sven ever raising his voice, let alone having a row with someone. He was a gentle man and a gentleman throughout his dealings with us certainly. And I think that always came across from the very outset.
“He was clearly a quite calm, unflappable character and he wasn’t going to let anything perturb him no matter what it was. No matter what questions were thrown at him, no matter what stick he got. He had this veneer of utter tranquillity.”
Custis: “There was a lot of mystery to him. You weren’t reading things about him every two minutes online as you would do now but he came in and he got off to a great start with that 3-0 win over Spain.”
Lipton: “He just loved being around football, didn’t he that was the thing.
“He didn’t want to give it up… He actually, genuinely loved being around football players, being a manager and all the trappings of that and just being important. Because he enjoyed being Sven-Goran Eriksson – football manager.”
Lipton: “He brought back a belief in the England team in that period, he gave us a night we’ll never forget and oversaw the real change in the culture of English football in that it became more celebrity in many ways.
“The players became bigger than they’d ever been and he managed to keep that under a degree of wraps… He was a better manager than I thought he was at the time.”