The team from Motala had only got as far as re-signing Pawel Przedpelski (above) and announcing the Stefan Skill Andersson would be returning as manager before news broke at the beginning of October that the club was in debt and had not paid its riders since August. The debt of 800,000 SEK (c. 74,000 EUR) needs to be repaid by 1 November and the crisis has caused a full-scale flight from the club with Mikkel Michelsen, Niels Kristian Iversen, Linus Sundström and Daniel Kaczmarek all signing for new clubs. Even manager Andersson Skill, who lead the team to Elitserien gold in 2013, has stepped down saying that the economic situation makes it impossible to build a team.
No one knows whether there will be a club in Motala next year at all, with the local authority refusing to bail out the club again as they did only two years ago in 2017.
At time of writing no news has come from either Svemo or Motala's local paper, MVT, which normally carries all stories about the Pirates.
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