the two following seasons ended without any notable success. but the club had for a while had their eyes on a tall and muscular youth, in the local small club bk landora, who played their home games at the b-pitch of landskrona ip. a very talented but heavy centre forward, his name was sonny johansson. he, just like claes cronqvist in 1966, was of interest for the stockholm club djurgårdens if. together with his father oscar, they made the long journey up to the swedish capital. everything looked like sonny should put his signature on the transfer papers, but he didn't, stating that "dad would be so lonesome without me". after his return from the capital, sonny did instead sign for landskrona bois, and he would become true to his new club for his entire career over 17 seasons.