Sven-Goran Eriksson's memorabilia from his four decades as a football manager has been put up for sale after he died with a reported debt of £3.7million.
There are 98 items for sale, including blazers from his England days, medals from his exploits in Italian football and his second management contract with Gotehenberg from 1979.
The former England manager died last August in Sunne, Sweden, aged 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
All items up for auction have an initial list price of 100 Swedish Krona (£7.40).
Earlier this month it was reported that he owed a total of £8.64 million (118 million Swedish crowns) and had £4.8 million in assets, leaving his estate with a significant deficit, according to Swedish news channel Göteborgs-Posten.
The largest share of the new figures was reportedly made up of tax debts in Britain, owed to HMRC, totaling £7.25 million.
He admitted on several occasions that he had poor control over his finances despite his illustrious career in football, telling Expressen in 2017: 'I have no idea how much money I have and where it is.'
That's despite earning huge sums of money during a managerial career that spanned fourteen clubs and three national teams. His payouts from England, Manchester City and Mexico alone are estimated to total around £7 million.
He admitted that he was close to bankruptcy at one point after losing £10 million to financial adviser Samir Khan, to whom he entrusted his fortune in 2007.
He later took Khan to court and won, receiving an apology but saying he never got the money back.
The luxury country house where Svennis spent the last years of his life is now for sale at what is being described as a 'bargain' price of £1.8 million.
On the shores of Lake Fryken, Bjorkefors Manor is set on a vast and secluded estate, complete with beautifully maintained gardens, woodlands and a private beach.
It was put up for sale several times in the 2010s, but Svennis was seemingly able to keep the property until the end of his life.
His beloved home of 22 years, the old farm, was put up for sale shortly after his death.
The estate inventory was submitted to the Swedish tax authorities earlier this month.
Records also show that Sven's funeral, which took place on September 13 at the Fryksande Church in Torsby, cost 650,000 krone, or about £48,000, plus a headstone for 30,000 Korna, or £2,200.
He is best known in Britain for managing England between 2001 and 2006 and becoming the first ever foreign manager to lead the team to two World Cup quarter-finals, ahead of Fabio Capello and Thomas Tuchel.
In the book 'A Beautiful Game', published shortly after his death, Eriksson made the revelation that, despite his brilliant career as a manager, he had at one point almost been bankrupt.
He expressed regret for handing over his financial responsibilities to Khan, whom he later described as the “only person on earth I hate.”
Eriksson reportedly met Khan in Dubai in 2004 and hired him to manage his finances three years later when he became Man City boss.
He admitted he had failed to heed warnings about Khan, reportedly causing him to lose an estimated £10 million of his fortune.
'If I had done that, I could have saved a lot of money. I've had a few blows in my life. Samir Khan was responsible for the worst,” Eriksson said, according to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.
“He, whom I trusted to take care of my money, caused me to lose 100 million kroner.
'I sued him and won in court, but I never got any money back. So even though I was making so much money, things were really bad for me for a while, I was close to personal bankruptcy.”
Eriksson had taken legal action in 2010 after he became concerned and asked Deloitte to carry out checks on Khan a year earlier.
His lawyers argued that Khan made negligent investments and “earned secret profits paid to himself.”
Khan is said to have bought a house in Barbados in Eriksson's name and taken out loans on the property, before doing the same with his mansion in Bjorkefors.
Svennis bought the mansion in the early days of his career as England manager in 2002 for 5.8 million Swedish crowns (£420,000) and carried out a complete renovation of the late 19th century property.
The property's value shot up to a whopping £4 million in the 2010s, but now the price tag has dropped to around half that – with a starting price of SEK 25 million (£1.8 million).
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