The absence of logic and determination to doomride in this thread beggars belief
Klimala spent a year on loan to us. Our club made it clear that they were in discussion with his club to extend his loan or transfer him. Clearly that did not work out.
Given that he likes us and we like him, if he was available for loan or transfer at a price a capped club could afford, why would he choose WSW over us? Players can reject a loan agreement if they don’t want to go in almost every case.
Eh. Not surprised PK isn’t staying tbh. He was decent enough for us.
If Western Suburbs do pick him up, of course they’ll gloat. But of course they gloat when they get our hand me downs. Personally I think he’s going back to Poland. The bloke is terrified of flying and I shudder to think of how many pairs of underwear he went through flying back and forth over the last 9 or so months. I doubt he’ll stay here.
But at least we now have a foreign spot to use on a defender who can actually defend.
Love the post from Lolley. Telling it like it is. If we shall goo feast perhaps his final line is him returning to England for good as well.
Theres some discussions from Polish twitter/X accounts that the buy option was €200k, we wanted to buy him, but PK wanted other things. Apparently has interest from Holland and Cyprus where his Polish club can cash in.
If we can keep PK then great, I’m all for it, he’s been good and eventually really found his feet. That said, he’s hardly such a good striker that he’s irreplaceable. Above average for this level, sure, but we’re not talking about a world class player here. If he goes to WSW (which I doubt) then it’s hardly devastating and they’d probably be paying overs for him as part of any deal anyway.
On the basis that we clearly need to go and use the foreign spot on a defender, i’m okay with Klimala going. As others said he was good, but not so good that we couldn’t let him go.
The problem is now finding a local striker to replace him. I’ve seen enough to know it wont be Wood, Talay clearly doesnt rate Kucharski, so it would have to be someone from the outside. How long do Maclaren and C U M D O G have left in India?
We have the perfect striker ready to break out and take the league by the scruff of the neck. He’s represented the Pine at the highest levels of Oceanic football, his name leaves linquists trembling, let alone opposition defences and goalkeepers. He’ll knock 30 a season in no worries. The greatest signing Ufuk Talay - nay - Sydney FC has ever made. It’s none other than…
Best-available domestic GK to push/replace our incumbent, as we did for Vuka vs Vedran. Unless we think Hoefsloot is (nearly) there to compete?
Best-available experienced ball-playing CB, with a foreign spot available. Modern-day Buijs.
Ouahim if Sega goes, but then I’d be a little concerned about goals.
When Sena is out, Cáceres drops deep and JK (LWF, Ouahim CAM), Wood (CF, Lolley RWF, Costa CAM), Quintal (LWF/CAM, Ouahim in the other spot) come in.
Similar re-shuffles if Cáceres or Costa are out, depending on which of JK/Wood/Quintal is performing and training better. France/Lacey one step closer to game time.
Popović, JCP, Shaw, Gurd compete for one CB spot.
JCP and King fight out for LB. I really think King is better there, unless these horror secondments at CB and RB have completely broken him.
R.Grant drops back to the ball-playing CB role if the foreign signing is out, and possibly drops back to RB in Talbot’s absence if ZDJ doesn’t keep improving. In R.Grant’s absence (whether injured, suspended or covering) we have Kamijo and Hollman pushing for the DM spot.